Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
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Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance

Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance

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Robert N. Proctor (Contributor) Londa Schiebinger (Contributor)  

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What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnotology-the study of ignorance-provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to ask: Why don't we know what we don't know? The essays assembled in Agnotology show that ignorance is often more than just an absence of knowledge; it can also be the outcome of cultural and political struggles. Ignorance has a history and a political geography, but there are also things people don't want you to know ("Doubt is our product" is the tobacco industry slogan). Individual chapters treat examples from the realms of global climate change, military secrecy, female orgasm, environmental denialism, Native American paleontology, theoretical archaeology, racial ignorance, and more. The goal of this volume is to better understand how and why various forms of knowing do not come to be, or have disappeared, or have become invisible. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Robert N. Proctor is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University and the author of The Nazi War on Cancer (1999) and Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know and Don't Know (1995). Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. Her recent books include Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (2004) and Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering (forthcoming from Stanford).
  • Contributor: Robert N. Proctor
  • Imprint: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780804759014
  • Number of Pages: 312
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 426
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Release Date: 2008-05-12
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Robert N. Proctor is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University and the author of The Nazi War on Cancer (1999) and Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know and Don't Know (1995). Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. Her recent books include Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (2004) and Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering (forthcoming from Stanford).

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