https://www.sismondo.ca/home daily 1.0 2021-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feca9639800ab4161dfd368/1610499427045-PPWTE6YAATP923Q2TBFU/serious+look.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feca9639800ab4161dfd368/1609606476439-TNX56E77635UAF3WRM8B/887_9gRg.png Home - Science and Technology Studies Scientific knowledge is produced. That is a good starting point for Science and Technology Studies. From there, we can ask how it’s produced and legitimated, by and for whom, under what circumstances, for what purposes, etc. We can ask similar questions about technological knowledge and practices, and extend our view to connected terrains. I have written one of the main textbooks of the field, An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies (2nd ed, 2010), as well as a number of other general or theoretical studies. I am the editor of Social Studies of Science, one of STS’s flagship journals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feca9639800ab4161dfd368/1609605551405-A96JGNBA1PQ8IDYWQ1L4/sq58_HTg.png Home - Pharmaceutical Knowledge Pharmaceutical companies sustain large networks to gather, create, control and disseminate information. Because of the companies’ resources, their interests and their levels of control, they often become key shapers of medical terrains. I describe paths of drug information and knowledge from contract research organizations (which perform the bulk of pharma’s research) to publication planners (who direct the production of ghostwritten medical journal articles) to key opinion leaders (who are deployed to educate physicians about drugs) and beyond. In describing these paths I am describing circumstances of the production, circulation and consumption of medical knowledge; as a result, my project is about political economies of knowledge. For an overview of the project, you can watch this recorded lecture. For a longer introduction, you can download my recent open-access book, Ghost-Managed Medicine: Big Pharma’s Invisible Hands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feca9639800ab4161dfd368/1609768794922-TLZHO0OFZ9FX924T8DVM/Picture1.png Home - Epistemic Corruption “Corruption” is an old term and a widely used metaphor. Bodies, fruits and meats are corrupted when they begin to rot, decompose, or otherwise spoil. More generally, what is thought pure is corrupted when mixed with something foul or lesser, as when air is made foul by pestilence or smoke, or noble lineages are supposedly lessened by poor marriages. Ends are perverted, as when a public official is corrupted for a purpose, to serve some interests rather than others. Or perhaps purities may simply become less so, degenerating from within. With Daryn Lehoux and Norma Möllers, I am working on a project on epistemic corruption, the corruption of knowledge practices and their legitimacy. Especially in the context of real and perceived crises of epistemic authority, there is value in analyzing knowledge systems in terms of all the above and other senses of the metaphor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feca9639800ab4161dfd368/1609605480835-QAW87TSHGAK62C7E12W4/pJml7noA.jpg Home Teaching Assistant Phoebe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5feca9639800ab4161dfd368/1609605426738-KZXAWSIPIZUXF7P6FWAA/EaDShn5g.jpeg Home https://www.sismondo.ca/new-page daily 0.75 2022-03-09