Rethinking Expertise.

Rethinking Expertise.

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Author / Creator:Collins, Harry.
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Description:1 online resource (173 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Expertise.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Science -- Social aspects.
Expertise.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Science -- Social aspects.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11347261
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Other authors / contributors:Evans, Robert.
ISBN:9780226113623
0226113620
1281959421
9781281959423
Notes:Print version record.
Summary:What does it mean to be an expert? In Rethinking Expertise, Harry Collins and Robert Evans offer a radical new perspective on the role of expertise in the practice of science and the public evaluation of technology. Collins and Evans present a Periodic Table of Expertises based on the idea of tacit knowledgeknowledge that we have but cannot explain. They then look at how some expertises are used to judge others, how laypeople judge between experts, and how credentials are used to evaluate them. Throughout, Collins and Evans ask an important question: how can the public make use of science and.
Other form:9780226113609

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