Standards : recipes for reality /

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 thi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Busch, Lawrence
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Series:Infrastructures series.
Subjects:
Standardization.
Standardization > Social aspects.
Normalisation.
Normalisation > Aspect social.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Measurement.
Standardization
Standardization > Social aspects
Norm
Standardisierung
Standaardisatie.
Kwaliteitszorg.
Accreditatie.
Sociale aspecten.
Ethische aspecten.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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?

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