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By Natasha Myers
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 07 August 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7563-0
... situated knowledge ontology epistemology judgment moral economy scientific controversies ...
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By Paul Wenzel Geissler
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 19 January 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7627-9
... nevirapine HIV/AIDS mother-to-child transmission AIDS medicine magic bullet scientific controversy activism ...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 19 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376279-012
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7627-9
... magic bullet scientific controversy activism ...
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 07 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375630-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7563-0
... a form of objectivity akin to situated knowledge practices. situated knowledge ontology epistemology judgment moral economy scientific controversies ...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 19 January 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7627-9
... scientific controversy activism ...
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 07 August 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7563-0
... economy scientific controversies ...
Published: 15 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375449-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7544-9
... Taking the case of behavior genetics, this essay traces efforts to cope with scientific disappointments and the conflicts among scientists spurred by postgenomics. Behavior genetics has long anticipated the advent of molecular genetics and postgenomics as deliverance from its endemic affliction...
Published: 09 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375869-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
..., and the anthropology of mining introduces theoretical tools that will be used to examine how mining expansion brought water, toxic chemicals, agentive mountains, and other actors into the sphere of politics. The concept of equivalence serves to explore how scientific and nonscientific forms of knowledge make pollution...
Published: 17 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7309-4
...The Making of Scientific Cultures In 2001, the discovery of a therapeutic vaccine against AIDS was announced in Cameroon by Professor Victor Anomah Ngu, a retired immunologist and former minister of health. This chapter explores the controversy that followed. It compares the case...
Published: 17 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7309-4
... In 2001, the discovery of a therapeutic vaccine against AIDS was announced in Cameroon by Professor Victor Anomah Ngu, a retired immunologist and former minister of health. This chapter explores the controversy that followed. It compares the case of this Cameroonian vaccine with other well-known African...
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373094-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7309-4
... In 2001, the discovery of a therapeutic vaccine against AIDS was announced in Cameroon by Professor Victor Anomah Ngu, a retired immunologist and former minister of health. This chapter explores the controversy that followed. It compares the case of this Cameroonian vaccine with other well-known...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-146
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... government’s controversial plan to build a road through the ecologically rich and fragile Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory ( tipnis ). Ribera’s criticisms reflect prevailing concerns on the part of the environmental and social movements and the scientific community, dovetailing...
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By Fabiana Li
Published: 09 March 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
... and the mountain’s material form (as a mineral deposit, aquifer, and Apu) were mutually articulated as the controversy took shape. The chapter examines the practices that bring entities into being and suggests that contemporary conflicts involve an ongoing process of contestation over socionatural worlds. anti...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-136
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
..., controversially, recognize the Pachamama, or Mother Earth, before any other force as the giver of all life and the source of strength for a refounded nation. The following year, when Bolivia hosted the World People’s Conference on Climate Change, the indigenous movements were given another chance to push...
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By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-026
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
..., 1985), especially 93–124; and Silas Weir Mitchell, George R. Morehouse, and William W. Keen, Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of the Nerves (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1864). For the less scientific practices that eased trauma as well, see Bret E. Carroll, Spiritualism in Antebellum America...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
..., 1985), especially 93–124; and Silas Weir Mitchell, George R. Morehouse, and William W. Keen, Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of the Nerves (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1864). For the less scientific practices that eased trauma as well, see Bret E. Carroll, Spiritualism in Antebellum America...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-033
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
..., 1985), especially 93–124; and Silas Weir Mitchell, George R. Morehouse, and William W. Keen, Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of the Nerves (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1864). For the less scientific practices that eased trauma as well, see Bret E. Carroll, Spiritualism in Antebellum America...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
..., 1985), especially 93–124; and Silas Weir Mitchell, George R. Morehouse, and William W. Keen, Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of the Nerves (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1864). For the less scientific practices that eased trauma as well, see Bret E. Carroll, Spiritualism in Antebellum America...
Book Chapter

By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
..., 1985), especially 93–124; and Silas Weir Mitchell, George R. Morehouse, and William W. Keen, Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of the Nerves (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1864). For the less scientific practices that eased trauma as well, see Bret E. Carroll, Spiritualism in Antebellum America...
Published: 03 April 2002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
..., 1985), especially 93–124; and Silas Weir Mitchell, George R. Morehouse, and William W. Keen, Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of the Nerves (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1864). For the less scientific practices that eased trauma as well, see Bret E. Carroll, Spiritualism in Antebellum America...