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Hubris and hybrids : a cultural history of technology and science
- Title
- Hubris and hybrids : a cultural history of technology and science / Mikael Hård and Andrew Jamison.
- Author
- Hård, Mikael.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2005.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Jamison, Andrew.
- Description
- xv, 335 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-325) and index.
- Contents
- The scientific reformation in early modern Europe -- The industrial transformation -- The sites of enlightenment and innovation -- The machine in the mind -- Technocrats and their critics -- Eastern minds take on the Western juggernaut -- Artistic appropriations from Morris to the matrix -- Machines and knowledge in action -- Mobility mania and its material manifestations -- The cultural forms of communication and information -- Public works, public health, and personal hygiene -- Coping with technoscience -- Making technoscience politically accountable -- From appropriate technology to green business -- Conclusion: history as cultural assessment.
- ISBN
- 0415949386 (hc. : alk. paper)
- 0415949394 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005001698
- OCLC
- ocm57557759
- SCSB-1373308
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library