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Standards : recipes for reality
- Title
- Standards : recipes for reality / Lawrence Busch.
- Author
- Busch, Lawrence.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
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- Description
- xii, 390 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Infrastructures series
- Uniform Title
- Infrastructures series.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-351) and index.
- 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?
- Call Number
- JFE 12-4298
- ISBN
- 9780262016384 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0262016389 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011007504
- OCLC
- 707886935
- Author
- Busch, Lawrence.
- Title
- Standards : recipes for reality / Lawrence Busch.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
- Series
- Infrastructures seriesInfrastructures series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-351) and index.
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- Other Form:
- Electronic resource $z 9780262299619
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-4298