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Knowledge Translation in Wikipedia: Mediating Medical Evidence Online book cover

1st Edition

Knowledge Translation in Wikipedia Mediating Medical Evidence Online

By Henry Jones Copyright 2027
184 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the mediation and contestation of medical evidence in Wikipedia. Existing scholarship in the medical sciences has highlighted Wikipedia as a key tool for medical ‘knowledge translation’, understood as the process of accelerating the wide dissemination and implementation of the latest scientific evidence in healthcare. Little is known, however, about the people, practices and... Read more

1. Expanding Knowledge Translation, 2. Studying Knowledge Translation in Wikipedia, 3. Knowledge Translation as a Social Practice, 4. Knowledge Translation as Re-evaluation, 5. The Politics of Knowledge Translation, 6. Conclusions, Index

Biography

Dr Henry Jones is a Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Manchester, UK and Principal Investigator on the Wiki[Alt]Med project, funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (2021-2023). He is also a co-coordinator of the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network, co-author of the fourth edition of In Other Words: A coursebook on translation (2026) and co-editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media (2021). His work has been published in international journals such as Translation Studies, Target, Globalizations and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and in edited volumes including the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies (2020) and the Routledge Handbook of Translation and Media (2022). His current research interests lie in the medical and health humanities, the sociology of translation, digital culture and corpus-based methodologies.

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