Results 121 to 130 of about 1,857 (211)

States of Secrecy: An Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
International audienceSecrecy became a major research topic in the history of science only in the last twenty-five years. Historians have come to realize how suffused scientific practice is with issues of secrecy.
Margócsy, Daniel, Vermeir, Koen
core   +2 more sources

COVID-19 as Eco-Pandemic Injustice: Opportunities for Collective and Antiracist Approaches to Environmental Health. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Health Soc Behav, 2021
Powers M   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Agnotology: Ignorance and Absence, or Towards a Sociology of Things that Aren’t There

open access: yesSocial Epistemology, 2014
The study of ignorance, or agnotology, has many similarities with studies of absence. This paper outlines a framework for agnotology which is shaped by interdisciplinary studies of both ignorance and absence, and identifies properties such as chronicity, granularity, scale, intentionality, and ontology in relation to epistemology as useful for studying
openaire   +1 more source

Plastics, materials and dreams of dematerialization

open access: yes, 2013
This chapter aims to provide a better understanding of the interplay between the materiality of plastics and their anthropological dimensions. Previous materials, such as glass, wood and aluminium, are referred to by the name of the stuff of which they ...
Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette
core   +1 more source

Self-Illusion and Medical Expertise in the Era of COVID-19. [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Forum Infect Dis, 2021
Claessens A   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy