Standards
Subtitle: recipes for reality
By: Lawrence Busch
Series: Infrastructures series; Infrastructures series
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780262016384
Subjects: Social aspects; Standardization
Description: 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: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-351) and index.
Table of contents: title: The power of standards; title: Standardizing the world; title: From standardization to standardized differentiation; title: Certified, accredited, licensed, approved; title: Standards, ethics, and justice; title: Standards and democracy; title: Conclusions : another road to serfdom?