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The crisis of expertise /

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-...

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Main Author:	Eyal, Gil (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; Medford, Massachusetts : Polity Press, 2019.
Subjects:	Specialists > Social aspects. Expertise > Social aspects. Knowledge, Sociology of. Suspicion > Social aspects.

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