UID:
almahu_9949546549702882
Format:
1 online resource (304 p.) :
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2 halftones, 5 tables
ISBN:
9780226817163
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9783110993899
Content:
This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health. Numbers are both controlling and fragile. They drive public policy, figuring into everything from college rankings to vaccine efficacy rates. At the same time, they are frequent objects of obfuscation, manipulation, or outright denial. This timely collection by a diverse group of humanists and social scientists challenges undue reverence or skepticism toward quantification and offers new ideas about how to harmonize quantitative with qualitative forms of knowledge. Limits of the Numerical focuses on quantification in several contexts: climate change; university teaching and research; and health, medicine, and well-being more broadly. This volume shows the many ways that qualitative and quantitative approaches can productively interact-how the limits of the numerical can be overcome through equitable partnerships with historical, institutional, and philosophical analysis. The authors show that we can use numbers to hold the powerful to account, but only when those numbers are themselves democratically accountable.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction: The Changing Fates of the Numerical --
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Part I Expert Sources of the Revolt against Experts --
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1. Numbers without Experts: The Populist Politics of Quantification --
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2. The Role of the Numerical in the Decline of Expertise --
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Part II Can Narrative Fix Numbers? --
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3. Audit Narratives: Making Higher Education Manageable in Learning Assessment Discourse --
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4. The Limits of "The Limits of the Numerical": Rare Diseases and the Seductions of Qualification --
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5. Reading Numbers: Literature, Case Histories, and Quantitative Analysis --
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Part III When Bad Numbers Have Good Social Effects --
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6. Why Five Fruit and Veg a Day? Communicating, Deceiving, and Manipulating with Numbers --
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7. Are Numbers Really as Bad as They Seem? A Political Philosophy Perspective --
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Part IV The Uses of the Numerical for Qualitative Ends --
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8. When Well-Being Becomes a Number --
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9. Aligning Social Goals and Scientific Numbers: An Ethical-Epistemic Analysis of Extreme Weather Attribution --
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10. The Purposes and Provisioning of Higher Education: Can Economics and Humanities Perspectives Be Reconciled? --
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Acknowledgments --
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References --
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Contributors --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993752
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EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110993738
In:
University of Chicago Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766509
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226817132
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780226817163
