Evidence in action between science and society : constructing, validating, and contesting knowledge
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Evidence in action between science and society : constructing, validating, and contesting knowledge
(Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine / edited by John Krige)
Routledge, 2023
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Includes index
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This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge.
The tensions between competing paradigms, different bodies of knowledge and the relative hierarchies between them are a crucial element of the historical and contemporary dynamics of scientific knowledge production. The negotiation of evidence is at the heart of this process. Starting from the premise that evidence constitutes a central, but also essentially contested concept in contemporary knowledge-based societies, this volume focuses on how evidence is generated and applied in practice-in other words, on "evidence in action." The contributions analyze and compare different evidence practices within the field of science and technology, how they interlink with different forms of power, their interaction with and impact on the legal and political domain, and their relationship to other, more heterodox forms of evidence that challenge traditional notions of evidence. In doing so, this volume provides much-needed context and historical background to contemporary debates on the so-called "post-truth" society.
Evidence in Action is the perfect resource for all those interested in the relationship between science, technology, and the role of knowledge in society.
Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Evidence in Action Part I: Establishing Evidence: The Formation of Disciplinary Cultures 2. War, Wheat, and Crop Diseases of the Late Enlightenment: Contesting and Producing Evidence in Agriculture in Great Britain 3. Presenting Chemical Practice in Court: Forensic Toxicology in Nineteenth-Century German States 4. No "Mere Accumulation of Material": Fieldwork Practices and Embedded Evidence in Early (Latin) Americanist Anthropology Part II: Innovating Evidence: Contemporary Technoscientific Approaches 5. Prototyping Evidence: How Artifacts Demonstrate Technological Futures 6. On Top of the Hierarchy: How Guidelines Shape Systematic Reviewing in Biomedicine 7. On the (Im)possibility of Identifying the Evidence Base of the Impact of Star Architecture Projects Part III: Governing Evidence: Evidence-Based Practice and Politics 8. The Thing We Call Evidence: Toward a Situated Ontology of Evidence in Policy 9. "Drawing Thresholds That Make Sense": Diagrammatic Evidence and Urgency in Automatic Outbreak Detection 10. Producing Migration Knowledge: From Big Data to Evidence-Based Policy? Part IV: Contesting Evidence: The Politics of Heterodox Evidence 11. Fearful Narratives: Evidence Production in the Visual Rhetoric of the Historic Anti-vaccine Movement in the German States 12. The Politics of Evidence: State Secrecy, Ambiguity, and Counterforensic Practice in "Missing Persons" Cases in Pakistan 13. Digital Ethnographic Art(i)Facts as Evidence: Anthropological Entanglements between Techne and Episteme
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