Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance by Londa Schiebinger, Robert N. Proctor

Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance

Londa Schiebinger, Robert N. Proctor

312 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnotology—the study of ignorance—provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we kn...

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