CPH:DOX Widens the Scope of Science Docs
CPH:SCIENCE opens the floor to conversations on the role of science docs with key players.
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CPH:SCIENCE opens the floor to conversations on the role of science docs with key players.
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12 posts published by Christina Macpherson on November 14, 2023
Most of the exposure people received came in the form of internal exposures from ingesting radioactivity, not from external, ambient gamma rays in the environment. Medical examinations of people in contaminated regions showed a significant increase in the general number of chromosomal mutations in newborns, and the frequency of birth defects in southern Belarus was…
Lorraine Daston Why is there no epistemology of the humanities that is even remotely comparable to the epistemology of the sciences? Why is it that humanists can gesture to only a handful of seminal works by philosophers (Wilhelm Dilthey on understanding in the humanities versus explanation in the sciences; Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur on…