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Ignorance Unmasked
Essays in the New Science of Agnotology
Av Robert N. Proctor, Londa Schiebinger m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
294 kr
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We live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got here—and how we might escape.From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked explores how agnotology—the study of ignorance—can help us better grasp: Why don't we know what …
Feminism and the Body
E-bok, 2000
604 kr
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This collection of classic essays in feminist body studies investigates the history of the image of the female body; from the medical ''discovery'' of the clitoris, to the ''body politic'' of Queen Elizabeth I, to women deprecated as ''Hottentot Venuses'' in the nineteenth century. The text look at …
Feminism and the Body
Häftad, 2000
844 kr
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This collection of classic essays in feminist body studies investigates the history of the image of the female body; from the medical 'discovery' of the clitoris, to the 'body politic' of Queen Elizabeth I, to women deprecated as 'Hottentot Venuses' in the nineteenth century. The text look at the …
Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine
Av Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1038 kr
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What useful changes has feminism brought to science? Feminists have enjoyed success in their efforts to open many fields to women as participants. But the effects of feminism have not been restricted to altering employment and professional opportunities for women. The essays in this volume explore …
Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine
Av Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
333 kr
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What useful changes has feminism brought to science? Feminists have enjoyed success in their efforts to open many fields to women as participants. But the effects of feminism have not been restricted to altering employment and professional opportunities for women. The essays in this volume explore …
Women and Gender in Science and Technology
2014
19573 kr
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The question of gender in science and technology is pursued by scholars from different disciplines and perspectives: historians study the lives of women scientists within the context of institutions that for centuries held women at arm’s length; sociologists uncover women’s access to the means of …
Has Feminism Changed Science?
Häftad, 2001
303 kr
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Do women do science differently? And how about feminists--male or female? The answer to this fraught question, carefully set out in this provocative book, will startle and enlighten every faction in the "science wars."Has Feminism Changed Science? is at once a history of women in science and a …
Plants and Empire
Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World
Häftad, 2007
395 kr
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Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic scientific voyages were sponsored by European imperial powers to explore the natural riches of the New World, and uncover the …
Mind Has No Sex?
Women in the Origins of Modern Science
Häftad, 1991
508 kr
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As part of his attempt to secure a place for women in scientific culture, the Cartesian François Poullain de la Barre asserted as long ago as 1673 that “the mind has no sex.” In this rich and comprehensive history of women’s contributions to the development of early modern science, Londa …
Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering
Inbunden, 2008
1350 kr
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The prominent scholars featured in Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering explore how gender analysis can profoundly enhance human knowledge in the areas of science, medicine, and engineering. Where possible, they provide concrete examples of how taking gender into account has yielded new …
Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering
Häftad, 2008
330 kr
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The prominent scholars featured in Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering explore how gender analysis can profoundly enhance human knowledge in the areas of science, medicine, and engineering. Where possible, they provide concrete examples of how taking gender into account has yielded new …
Agnotology
The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
Av Robert N. Proctor, Londa Schiebinger
Häftad, 2008
333 kr
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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? …
Colonial Botany
Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World
Av Londa Schiebinger, Claudia Swan
Häftad, 2007
388 kr
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In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collection of essays offers a lively challenge to a …
Colonial Botany
Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World
Av Londa Schiebinger, Claudia Swan
E-bok, 2016
493 kr
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In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collection of essays offers a lively challenge to a …
Nature's Body
Gender in the Making of Modern Science
Häftad, 2004
498 kr
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Winner of the Ludwik Fleck Book Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science, 1995Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature-one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era. When plants were found to reproduce sexually, …
Secret Cures of Slaves
People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2017
1217 kr
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In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to work with and against nature to restore humans to health and well-being. In this book, Londa Schiebinger examines medicine and human experimentation in …
Secret Cures of Slaves
People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Häftad, 2017
295 kr
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In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to work with and against nature to restore humans to health and well-being. In this book, Londa Schiebinger examines medicine and human experimentation in …
Secret Cures of Slaves
People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
E-bok, 2017
309 kr
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In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to work with and against nature to restore humans to health and well-being. In this book, Londa Schiebinger examines medicine and human experimentation in …
Ignorance Unmasked
Essays in the New Science of Agnotology
Av Robert N. Proctor, Londa Schiebinger
Inbunden, 2025
1217 kr
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We live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got here—and how we might escape.From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked explores how agnotology—the study of ignorance—can help us better grasp: Why don't we know what …
Ignorance Unmasked
Essays in the New Science of Agnotology
Av Robert N. Proctor, Londa Schiebinger
E-bok, 2025
357 kr
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We live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got here—and how we might escape.From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked explores how agnotology - the study of ignorance - can help us better grasp: Why don't we know …
