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Standards recipes for reality / Lawrence Busch.
| Author/creator | Busch, Lawrence |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, |
| Description | xii, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Infrastructures series Infrastructures series. ^A1063782 |
| Contents | The power of standards -- Standardizing the world -- From standardization to standardized differentiation -- Certified, accredited, licensed, approved -- Standards, ethics, and justice -- Standards and democracy -- Conclusions : another road to serfdom? |
| Abstract | This book investigates standards as the recipes that shape not only the physical world, but human social interactions. The author outlines the history of formal standards and describes how modern science came to be associated with the moral-technical project of standardization of both people and things. The author also explores how standards are intimately connected to power, empowering some but disempowering others. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-351) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011007504 |
| ISBN | 9780262016384 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0262016389 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |