Circulation of Knowledge

Historians have long been interested in knowledge - its nature and origin, and the circumstances under which it was created - but it has only been in recent decades that the history of knowledge has emerged as an academic field in its own right. In Circulation of Knowledge, a group of Nordic researchers address the burning issue of the day: the circulation of knowledge in social or scientific circles, and what happens to it when it is in motion.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• The history of knowledge and the circulation of knowledge
  • An introduction
• I Public Circulation of Knowledge
  • 1. Public, private, and experience-based knowledge
    • Cholesterol knowledge in circulation in Finnish society, 1970–2010
  • 2. The circulation and commercialization of sexual knowledge
    • The celebrity sexologists Inge and Sten Hegeler
  • 3. From content to circulation
    • Influential books and the history of knowledge
  • 4. Political knowledge in public circulation
    • The case of subsidies in eighteenth-century Sweden
• II Conditions of Circulation
  • 5. Theoria, praxis, and poiesis
    • Theoretical considerations on the circulation of knowledge in everyday life
  • 6. Unwelcome knowledge
    • Resistance to pedagogical knowledge in a university setting, c.1965–2005
  • 7. Conflict, consensus, and circulation
    • The public debates on education in Sweden, c.1800–1830
  • 8. The circulation of knowledge in translations and compilations
    • A sixteenth-century example
• III Objects and Sites of Knowledge
  • 9. Circulation and monstrosity
    • The sea-pig and the walrus as objects of knowledge in the sixteenth century
  • 10. Materializing circulation
    • A gigantic skeleton and a Danish eighteenth-century naturalist
  • 11. Guaiacum
    • A circulating cure for syphilis
  • 12. The printed work as a site of knowledge circulation
    • Dialogues, systems, and the question of genre
• About the authors