This book explores how and why some people and practices are made invisible in science, featuring 25 case studies and commentaries that explore how invisibility can bolster or undermine credibility, how race, gender, class, and nation frame who can see what, how invisibility empowers and marginalizes, and the epistemic ramifications of concealment.
This book explores how and why some people and practices are made invisible in science, featuring 25 case studies and commentaries that explore how invisibility can bolster or undermine credibility, how race, gender, class, and nation frame who can see what, how invisibility empowers and marginalizes, and the epistemic ramifications of concealment.
Jenny Bangham is a Wellcome University Award Lecturer in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London, where she researches the politics, meanings, and practices of genetics. She is the author of Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics (2020), which explores the intimate connections between the infrastructures of blood transfusion and the development of human genetics. She is co-editor of the open access volume, How Collections End: Objects and Loss in Laboratories and Museums (2019). Xan Chacko is a lecturer in science, technology, and society at Brown University, whose research complicates narratives of scientific practices and knowledge. Her current book, The Last Seed: Botanic Futures in Colonial Legacies situates the emergence of cryogenic seed banking as a response to catastrophic species loss of plant life in the twentieth century. Judith Kaplan is a historian of the human sciences who teaches in the Integrated Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She has published widely on topics from orientalism to sound studies and is currently completing a manuscript on Living Language and the Transformation of Linguistics, 1871-1918.
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