4 options
Standards : recipes for reality / Lawrence Busch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Busch, Lawrence.
- Series:
- Infrastructures series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Standardization.
- Standardization--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (403 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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?
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613302823
- 9780262297851
- 026229785X
- 9781283302821
- 1283302829
- 9780262298735
- 0262298732
- OCLC:
- 760884537
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613302823
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.