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| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| ISBN 13 | 9781538159958 |
| ISBN 10 | 1538159953 |
| Book Description | Invisible Labour in Modern Science is about the people who are concealed, eclipsed, or anonymised in accounts of scientific research. Many scientific workers―including translators, activists, archivists, technicians, curators, and ethics review boards―are absent in formal publications and omitted from stories of discovery. Scientific reports are often held to ideals of transparency, yet they are the result of careful judgments about what (and what not) to reveal. Professional scientists are often celebrated, yet they are expected to uphold principles of ‘objective’ self-denial. The emerging and leading scholars writing in this book negotiate such silences and omissions to reveal how invisibilitieshave shaped twentieth and twenty-first century science. Invisibility can be unjust; it can also be powerful. What is invisible to whom, and when does this matter? How do power structures built on hierarchies of race, gender, class, and nation frame what can be seen? And for those observing science: when does the recovery of the ‘invisible’ serve social justice and when does it invade privacy? Tackling head-on the silences and dilemmas that can haunt historians, this book transforms invisibility into a guide for exploring the moral sensibilities and politics of science and its history. |
| About the Author | Jenny Bangham is a Wellcome Medical Humanities Research Fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.Xan Chacko is a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland.Judith Kaplan is Teaching Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Jenny Bangham |
| Publication Date | 2022-09-01 |
| Number of Pages | 354 pages |
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