Evidence contestation : dealing with dissent in knowledge societies /: dealing with dissent in knowledge societies. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Karin Zachmann, Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Saana Jukola, Olga Sparschuh.
• Editors: Zachmann, Karin
• Contents: Introduction. Evidence Critique and Contestation as a Challenge in Academia and Society Karin Zachmann, Saana Jukola, Olga Sparschuh and Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio 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. Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 121.65; Evidence; Knowledge, Theory of
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000839913; 9781000839852
• Related ISBNs: 9781032219103
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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