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The crisis of expertise

Title
The crisis of expertise / Gil Eyal.
Author
Eyal, Gil
Publication
  • Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
190 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"Are we witnessing, therefore, the "death of expertise," or is the handwringing about an "assault on science" merely the hysterical reaction of threatened elites? In this new book, Gil Eyal argues that the current mistrust of experts is best understood as one more spiral in an on-going, recursive crisis of legitimacy"--
Subject
  • Specialists > Social aspects
  • Expertise > Social aspects
  • Knowledge, Sociology of
  • Suspicion > Social aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Expertise -- The debate about expertise -- Trust -- Risk -- Crisis, take 2 -- Inside the vortex -- Balaam's blessing -- Conclusions, or, trans-science as a vocation.
Call Number
JFD 20-799
ISBN
  • 9780745665771
  • 0745665772
  • 9780745665788
  • 0745665780
  • 9781509538874 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2019003893
  • 40029480075
OCLC
1083690641
Author
Eyal, Gil, author.
Title
The crisis of expertise / Gil Eyal.
Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Eyal, Gil. The crisis of expertise. Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2019. 9781509538874 (DLC) 2019981015
Other Standard Identifier
40029480075
Research Call Number
JFD 20-799
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