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Standards - 9780262525053

Un libro in lingua di Lawrence Busch edito da Mit Pr, 2013

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Standards are the means by which we construct realities. There are establishedstandards for professional accreditation, the environment, consumer products, animal welfare, theacceptable stress for highway bridges, healthcare, education -- for almost everything. We aresurrounded by a vast array of standards, many of which we take for granted but each of which hasbeen and continues to be the subject of intense negotiation. In this book, Lawrence Buschinvestigates standards as "recipes for reality." Standards, he argues, shape not only thephysical world around us but also our social lives and even our selves.

Buschshows how standards are intimately connected to power -- that they often serve to empower some anddisempower others. He outlines the history of formal standards and describes how modern science cameto be associated with the moral-technical project of standardization of both people and things.Busch suggests guidelines for developing fair, equitable, and effective standards. Taking a uniquelyintegrated and comprehensive view of the subject, Busch shows how standards for people and thingsare inextricably linked, how standards are always layered (even if often addressed serially), andhow standards are simultaneously technical, social, moral, legal, and ontological devices.

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  • Titolo del Libro in lingua: Standards
  • Sottotitolo: Recipes for Reality
  • Lingua: English
  • AutoreLawrence Busch
  • Editore: Mit Pr
  • Collana: Mit Pr (Paperback)
  • Data di Pubblicazione: 16 Agosto '13
  • Genere: SCIENCE
  • Pagine: 390
  • Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 17
  • ISBN-10: 0262525054
  • EAN-13: 9780262525053