História e Verdade(s), vol. 23

JOÃO ARRISCADO NUNES
Risk, uncertainty and regimes of truth: tumoural pathology and cancer biology.

The definition of truth regimes in different knowledge domains is inextricably linked to the contexts in which a given kind of knowledge, its reliability and its robustness are put to the test and is actual or expected effects and consequences are assessed under conditions of uncertainty. Tumour pathology and translational research in cancer biology are examined as a particularly fertile empirical ground for an "epistopical" questioning of the constitution and workings of a truth regime.