Evidence Contestation (eBook, ePUB)

Dealing with Dissent in Knowledge Societies
Redaktion: Zachmann, Karin; Sparschuh, Olga; Jukola, Saana; Bondio, Mariacarla Gadebusch

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the practices of contesting evidence in democratically constituted knowledge societies. It provides a multifaceted view of the processes and conditions of evidence criticism and how they determine the dynamics of de- and re-stabilization of evidence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000839913
• Artikelnr.: 67398574

Autorenporträt

Karin Zachmann is a professor of the history of technology at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and co-speaker of the DFG research group "Practicing Evidence - Evidencing Practice". Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio heads the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University Hospital of Bonn, Germany. She is the co-editor, with Francesco Spöring and John-Stewart Gordon, of Medical Ethics, Prediction, and Prognosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2017). Saana Jukola is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy I, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, under the DFG-Emmy Noether Research Group "The Return of the Organism in the Biosciences: Theoretical, Historical, and Social Dimensions". Olga Sparschuh is a postdoctoral researcher in history of technology at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and the coordinator of the DFG research group "Practicing Evidence - Evidencing Practice".

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Theoretical Framing: Evidence Critique and Contestation 1. What is
Scientific Criticism for? Some Philosophical Reflections on Criticism and
Evidence within the Scientific Ethos Elif Özmen and Daniel Füger 2.
Questioning Evidence: Three Modes of Contestation Eva Barlösius and Eva
Ruffing Part 2: Striving for Diverse Evidence: Ecological and Biological
Evidence Critique 3. How Many Plots Can the Data Hold? Reconciling Stories
and Evidence in Evolutionary Biology Martha Kenney 4. Rethinking Evidence
Practices for Environmental Decision-Making in the Anthropocene. What Can
We Learn from Invasive Species Research and Policy? Christoph Kueffer Part
3: Questioning the Criteria for Evidence: Health Sciences 5. Surgical Caps
and Trouble with Evidence. Epistemology and Ethics of Perioperative Hygiene
Measures Saana Jukola and Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio 6. Negotiating
Consensus for Diverging Evidence. An Application of the Explanatory
Approach to Guidelines for the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders and
Addiction Fredrik Andersen, Yngve Herikstad, Anders Dechsling and Stefan
Sütterlin Part 4: Challenging Academic Evidence: Counter Science, Citizen
Science and Environmental Activism 7. Evidence against the "Nuclear State".
Contesting Technoscience through Gegenwissenschaft in the 1970s and 1980s
Stefan Esselborn and Karin Zachmann 8. Appropriating Evidence. Scientific
Criticism and Environmental Activism in the Global Pesticide Controversy
during the 1970s and 1980s Sarah Ehlers 9. Participation as Evidence
Contestation. The Ambiguous Balance of Social and Epistemic Involvement
through Citizen Science Kevin Altmann and Andreas Wenninger Part 5:
Interpreting and Communicating Academic Evidence: Consumer Behavior and the
Media 10. Exploring Consumers' Interpretation of Contested Nutritional
Evidence. The Relevance of the Moral Foundations Theory Edoardo Maria Pelli
and Jutta Roosen 11. Stories about Villains, Mad Scientists and Failure.
Patterns of Evidence Criticism in Media Coverage of Genomic Research
Susanne Kinnebrock and Helena Bilandzic