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Invisible Labour in Modern Science (Hardcover)
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Invisible Labour in Modern Science (Hardcover)
Series: Global Epistemics
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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.
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