{"product_id":"agnotology-9780804759014","title":"Agnotology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgnotology-the study of how ignorance is produced and maintained-introduces a new and much-needed perspective for scholars across all fields of research, including the humanities and social sciences, business organization, and environmental policy and the law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone who thinks ignorance is nobodys business has a lot to learn from these provocative essays. The distinguished authors offer compelling evidence that what we do not know is every bit as much a product of human choice and ingenuity as what we choose to know. \u003ci\u003eAgnotology\u003c\/i\u003e rescues ignorance from the no-mans-land of unexamined social phenomena. It makes us ask what is at stake when we dont know things that are plainly before our eyes. This is a book for every thinking citizen.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\"In the past years there have been few new fields of research as timely as agnotology. Many a time one is puzzled by the widespread ignorance of some of the greatest challenges mankind faces today, be it global warming, the way to the Iraq war, or the global tobacco epidemic. Agnotology might very well be the tool to delve into the great black holes of modern knowledge and also find a way out.\" —Andrian Kreye, arts and ideas editor, \u003ci\u003eSueddeutsche Zeitung\u003c\/i\u003e, Germany\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Preface\txxx  1.\tAgnotology: A Missing Term to Describe the Cultural Production of Ignorance (and its Study)  Robert N. Proctor\t1  Part I.\tSecrecy, Selection, and Suppression  2.\tRemoving Knowledge: The Logic of Modern Censorship  Peter Galison\t000  3.\tChallenging Knowledge: How Climate Science Became a Victim of the Cold War  Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway\t000  4.\tManufactured Uncertainty: Contested Science and the Protection of the Public's Health and Environment   David M. Michaels\t000  5.\tComing To Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance  Nancy Tuana\t000  Part II.\tLost Knowledge, Lost Worlds  6.\tWest Indian Abortifacients and the Cultural Production of Ignorance   Londa Schiebinger\t000  7.\tSuppression of Indigenous Fossil Knowledge: From Claverack, New York 1705 to Agate Springs, Nebraska, 2005   Adrienne Mayor\t000  8.\tAgnotology in\/of Archaeology   Alison Wylie\t000  Part III.\tTheorizing Ignorance  9.\tSocial Theories of Ignorance   Michael J. Smithson\t000  10.\tWhite Ignorance  Charles W. Mills\t000  11.\tRisk Management vs. the Precautionary Principle: Agnotology as a Strategy in the Debate over Genetically Engineered Organisms  David Magnus\t000  12.\tSmoking Out Objectivity: Journalistic Gears in the Agnotology Machine  Jon Christensen\t000  Notes\t000  List of Contributors\t000  Index\t000","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405573693783,"sku":"9780804759014","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804759014.jpg?v=1730492885","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/agnotology-9780804759014","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}