Linsey McGoey (born 17 April 1978) is a Canadian sociologist and academic based in England. She is a professor in the Department of

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at the

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. She is known for having written about philanthropy in her book ''No Such Thing as a Free Gift'' and co-editing the ''Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies'' with Matthias Gross. Her next book, ''The Unknowers: How Elite Ignorance Rules the World,'' was published in 2019.

Education and career

She was educated at

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, graduating with a BA in Journalism. She then completed an MA at the

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Anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, society, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behav ...

. She received a

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from the

in 2007 with a thesis on The value of ignorance: Antidepressant drugs and the policies of objectivity in medicine.

Major works

* McGoey, L. (2014). ''An introduction to the sociology of ignorance: essays on the limits of knowing''. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 978-1-13-877967-9. * Gross, M. and McGoey, L., editors (2015). ''Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies''. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-71896-7. * McGoey, L. (2015). ''No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy''. Verso Publication. ISBN 9781784780838. * McGoey, L. (2019). ''The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World''. Zed Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1780326351.

References

1978 births Living people Canadian sociologists British sociologists British women sociologists {{sociologist-stub