Evidence Contestation: Dealing with Dissent in Knowledge Societies

This book examines the practices of contesting evidence in democratically constituted knowledge societies. It provides a multifaceted view of the processes and conditions of evidence criticism and how they determine the dynamics of de- and re-stabilization of evidence.

Karin Zachmann is a professor of the history of technology at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and co-speaker of the DFG research group ＂Practicing Evidence - Evidencing Practice＂.

Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio heads the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University Hospital of Bonn, Germany. She is the co-editor, with Francesco Spöring and John-Stewart Gordon, of Medical Ethics, Prediction, and Prognosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2017).

Saana Jukola is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy I, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, under the DFG-Emmy Noether Research Group ＂The Return of the Organism in the Biosciences: Theoretical, Historical, and Social Dimensions＂.

Olga Sparschuh is a postdoctoral researcher in history of technology at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and the coordinator of the DFG research group ＂Practicing Evidence - Evidencing Practice＂.