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36Local knowledge and comparative scientific traditionsKnowledge, Technology & Policy 6 (3): 29-54. 1993.This article argues that all knowledge is inherently local and that localness provides the basis for comparison between indigenous scientific traditions or knowledge production systems. As collective bodies of knowledge, many of the significant differences between knowledge production systems lie in the work involved in creating assemblages from differing practices. Much of the work can be seen in the social strategies and technical devices employed in creating equivalences and connections where…Read more
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15Driving Under the Influence of Marijuana Laws and the Public's HealthJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 45 (2): 280-283. 2017.
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41The paper addresses the question of whether, as Nanda claims, treating all knowledge traditions including science as local, denies the possibility of criticism. It accepts the necessity for criticism but denies that science can be the sole arbiter of truth and argues that we have to live with holding differing knowledges in tension with one another.
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