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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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Infrastructures series.
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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?