Weak knowledge : forms, functions, and dynamics
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Weak knowledge : forms, functions, and dynamics
（Discourses of weakness and resource regimes, v. 4）
Campus Verlag, c2020
- : hardback
Available at 1 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"SFB 1095"--Cover
Series title in German on opposite page of title page and cover
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Description
Many of us view the world of science as a firm bastion of knowledge, with each new discovery and further illumination adding to an unshakable foundation of natural truths. Weak Knowledge aims to rattle our faith, not in core certainties of scientific findings but in their strength as accessible resources. The authors show how, throughout history, many bodies of research have become precarious due to a host of factors. These factors have included cultural or social disinterest, feeble empirical evidence or theoretical justifications, and a lack of practical applications in a given field's findings. This book brings together cases from a range of historical periods and disciplines, ranging from personal medicine to climatology, to illuminate the specific forms, functions, and dynamics of so-called "weak" bodies of knowledge.
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