My Account Log in

1 option

Standards : recipes for reality / Lawrence Busch.

MIT Press Direct (eBooks) Available online

View online
Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Busch, Lawrence, author.
Series:
Infrastructures series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Standardization.
Standardization--Social aspects.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 390 pages) : illustrations.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
System Details:
text file
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.
Notes:
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
ISBN:
9780262298735
0262298732
9780262297851
026229785X
1283302829
9781283302821
OCLC:
760884537
Publisher Number:
9786613302823
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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 If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.

My Account

Shelf Request an item Bookmarks Fines and fees Settings

Guides

Using the Library Catalog Using Articles+ Library Account