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Failing kidneys: Hotspots, blind spots and biopolitics of indifference
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 24-39, March 2024.Abstract Chronic kidney disease of non‐traditional cause (CKDnt) is commonly associated with monocropping agriculture, heat stress and impoverished working conditions, referred to as CKDnt “hotspots.” The condition is also emerging in various sites of environmental contamination, raising questions as to whether multiple variants of the condition exist ...
Ciara Kierans, César Padilla‐Altamira
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La production des savoirs sur les pesticides dans la règlementation européenne
VertigO, 2016 This article presents a critical approach of the European rules of knowledge production on the harmful effects of plant protection products. We borrow the theorical framework from sociology, agnotology, to show that the lack of awareness of the origin of
Annie Martin
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To Know or Better Not to [PDF]
, 2017 With an innovative perspective on the social character of ignorance production, agnotology has been a fruitful approach for understanding the social and epistemological consequences of the interaction between industry and scientific research.
Manuela Fernandez Pinto +1 more
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Knowledge in the dark: scientific challenges and ways forward
FACETS, 2019 A key dimension of our current era is Big Data, the rapid rise in produced data and information; a key frustration is that we are nonetheless living in an age of ignorance, as the real knowledge and understanding of people does not seem to be ...
Jonathan M. Jeschke +3 more
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The banality of agnotology : The case of an interest group in the Swedish educational system [PDF]
Research on the strategic use of ignorance, agnotology, often builds on the two assumptions that a group becomes ignorant as a direct consequence of some organization’s foul undermining of knowledge, and that there are hard scientific facts about some ...
Westergren, Jakob,
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Guilt, Innocence, Post-Guilt: Memory Communities and their Discontents in Germany
Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y SocialesThe article examines the intricate dynamics of memory politics and cultural discontent in Germany, focusing on Jewish and Palestinian communities post-1945.
Dani Kranz
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Quand l’ignorance présente un intérêt
Cahiers Droit, Sciences & TechnologiesWhile ignorance is commonly equated with an absence of knowledge, it can also be the object of production. The idea is to create controversy with the aim of weakening an inconvenient scientific result.
Simon Hutin
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Globalization and Health, 2019 Background Sugar sweetened beverages (SSB) are a major source of sugar in the diet. Although trends in consumption vary across regions, in many countries, particularly LMICs, their consumption continues to increase.
Gary Jonas Fooks +3 more
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Introduction to “Expert disagreement and medical authority” [PDF]
, 2015 Chapter 7 introduces the subject discussed in Chapter 8, ‘Expert disagreement and medical authority’, which addresses the ideas of consensus, dissent, division of cognitive labor, social epistemology, scientific disagreement, epistemic authority ...
Kenneth S. Kendler
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