 | Acting in an Uncertain World
An Essay on Technical Democracy
Michel Callon, Pierre Lascoumes and Yannick Barthe; Translated by Graham Burchell
A call for a new form of democracy in which "hybrid forums" composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology.
Cloth / March 2009
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 | An Engine, Not a Camera
How Financial Models Shape Markets
Donald MacKenzie
A pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways—as an engine that shapes them rather than a camera that reproduces their every detail.
Cloth / May 2006
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 | An Engine, Not a Camera
How Financial Models Shape Markets
Donald MacKenzie
A pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways—as an engine that shapes them rather than a camera that reproduces their every detail.
Paper / September 2008
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 | Artificial Experts
Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines
Harry Collins
In Artificial Experts sociologist Harry Collins explains what computers can't do, but also studies the ordinary and extraordinary things that they can do.
Cloth / October 1990
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 | Artificial Experts
Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines
H. M. Collins
An in-depth look at the ordinary and extraordinary things computers can do.
Paper / November 1992
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| Between Reason and Experience
Essays in Technology and Modernity
Andrew Feenberg; Foreword by Brian Wynne
A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic coordination of technical rationality with everyday experience.
Paper / June 2010
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 | Biomedical Platforms
Realigning the Normal and the Pathological in Late-Twentieth-Century Medicine
Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio
An examination of postwar medicine based on the notion of the biomedical platform—the theoretical and clinical meeting ground between the normal and the pathological.
Cloth / October 2003
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 | Biomedical Platforms
Realigning the Normal and the Pathological in Late-Twentieth-Century Medicine
Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio
An examination of postwar medicine based on the notion of the biomedical platform—the theoretical and clinical meeting ground between the normal and the pathological.
Paper / September 2006
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 | Building Genetic Medicine
Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care
Shobita Parthasarathy
A comparative study of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer in the United States and Britain that shows the importance of national context in the development and use of science and technology even in an era of globalization.
Cloth / April 2007
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 | Building the Trident Network
A Study of the Enrollment of People, Knowledge, and Machines
Maggie Mort
A sociotechnical study of production contingencies in the United Kingdom's Trident submarine and missile system.
Cloth / November 2001
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 | Building the Trident Network
A Study of the Enrollment of People, Knowledge, and Machines
Maggie Mort
A sociotechnical study of production contingencies in the United Kingdom's Trident submarine and missile system.
Paper / March 2008
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 | Calculating a Natural World
Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research
Atsushi Akera
How the complex interplay of academic, commercial, and military interests produced an intense period of scientific discovery and technological innovation in computing during the Cold War.
Cloth / November 2006
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 | Calculating a Natural World
Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research
Atsushi Akera
How the complex interplay of academic, commercial, and military interests produced an intense period of scientific discovery and technological innovation in computing during the Cold War.
Paper / September 2008
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 | The Closed World
Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America
Paul N. Edwards
Cloth / April 1996
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 | The Closed World
Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America
Paul N. Edwards
Paper / August 1997
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 | Cold War Kitchen
Americanization, Technology, and European Users
Edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann
The kitchen as political symbol and material reality in the cold war years.
Cloth / March 2009
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 | Constructing a Bridge
An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design, and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America
Eda Kranakis
A historical look at styles of technological research and design.
Cloth / November 1996
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 | Coordinating Technology
Studies in the International Standardization of Telecommunications
Susanne K. Schmidt and Raymund Werle
Susanne Schmidt and Raymund Werle present three case studies from the telecommunications industry to highlight the actors, the process, the politics, and the influence exerted by international organizations in the construction of standards.
Cloth / December 1997
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 | Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power
Science and Industrial Agriculture in California
Christopher R. Henke
How agricultural scientists and growers in California have cooperated—and struggled—in shaping the state's multi-billion-dollar farm industry.
Cloth / October 2008
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 | Designing Engineers
Louis L. Bucciarelli
Designing Engineers describes the evolution of three disparate
projects: an x-ray inspection system for airports, a photoprint
machine, and a residential photovoltaic energy system.
Paper / January 1996
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