Beyond Imported Magic

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• Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South. The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptatio... Lees meer

Patently Contestable

Stathis Arapostathis, Graeme Gooday

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• An examination of the fierce disputes that arose in Britain in the decades around 1900 concerning patents for electrical power and telecommunications.... Lees meer

Vulnerability in Technological Cultures

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• Analysis and case studies explore the concept of vulnerability, offering a novel and broader approach to understanding the risks and benefits of scien... Lees meer

Ignorance and Surprise

Matthias Gross

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• The relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecological design projects. Ign... Lees meer

Arguments That Count

Rebecca Slayton

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• How differing assessments of risk by physicists and computer scientists have influenced public debate over nuclear defense. In a rapidly changing worl... Lees meer

Good Science

Charis Thompson

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• An examination of a decade and a half of political controversy, ethical debate, and scientific progress in stem cell research. After a decade and a ha... Lees meer

The Global Biopolitics of the IUD

Chikako Takeshita

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• The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, an... Lees meer