Stanford University Press - Agnotology The Making And Unmaking Of Ignorance - Paperback Pharmaceutical Technology Barcode: 9780715322239

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Stanford University Press - Agnotology The Making And Unmaking Of Ignorance - Paperback Pharmaceutical Technology Barcode: 9780715322239Binding: Paperback Description: 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 know" to ask: Why don't we know what we don't know? The essays assembled in Agnotology show that ignorance is often more than just an absence of knowledge; it can also be the