The Limits of Knowledge
Generating Pragmatist Feminist Cases for Situated Knowing
1st Edition
Published on 16. July 2015
202 pages
978-1-4384-5782-6 (ISBN)
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Argues for a transactionally situated approach to science and medicine in order to meet the needs of marginalized groups.
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Nancy Arden McHugh is Professor of Philosophy at Wittenberg University and the author of Feminist Philosophies A-Z.
Content
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Knowing (in) This place
2. The Career Woman's Disease: Endometriosis and Experimental Inquiry
3. Grounding Knowledge Through the Mothers Committee of Bayview Hunters Point
4. Transactionally Situated Frameworks, Gold Standards, and Silent Epidemics
5. The Needs of Living: Agent Orange in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam
6. Rooted in a Community
7. Where We Should Begin and End
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Index
1. Introduction: Knowing (in) This place
2. The Career Woman's Disease: Endometriosis and Experimental Inquiry
3. Grounding Knowledge Through the Mothers Committee of Bayview Hunters Point
4. Transactionally Situated Frameworks, Gold Standards, and Silent Epidemics
5. The Needs of Living: Agent Orange in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam
6. Rooted in a Community
7. Where We Should Begin and End
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