Standards : recipes for reality / Lawrence Busch.

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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Busch, Lawrence
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Series:Infrastructures series.
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 390 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780262298735
0262298732
9780262297851
026229785X
1283302829
9781283302821
9780262525053
0262525054
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.