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UNINA9910450774703321 |
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Feenberg Andrew |
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Titolo |
Questioning technology / / Andrew Feenberg |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999 |
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0-86571-205-0 |
0-203-02231-9 |
1-134-73798-X |
0-203-15935-7 |
1-280-33344-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Technology - Social aspects |
Technology - Political aspects |
Technology - Philosophy |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-235) and index. |
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Front Cover; Questioning Technology; Copyright Page; Contents; List of charts; Preface; 1. Technology, Philosophy, Politics; Part I:The Politicizing of Technology; 2.Technocracy and Rebellion: The May Events of 1968; 3. Environmentalism and the Politics of Technology; Part II:Democratic Rationalization; 4. The Limits of Technical Rationality; 5. The Problem of Agency; 6. Democratizing Technology; Part III:Technology and Modernity; 7. Critical Theories of Technology; 8. Technology and Meaning; 9. Impure Reason; References; Index |
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In this extraordinary introduction to the study of the philosophy of technology, Andrew Feenberg argues that techonological design is central to the social and political structure of modern societies. Environmentalism, information technology, and medical advances testify to technology's crucial importance.In his lucid and engaging style, Feenberg shows that technology is the medium of daily life. Every major technical changes reverberates at countless levels: economic, political, and cultural. If we continue to see the social and technical |
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domains as being seperate, then we are essentially |
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UNINA9910377813703321 |
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Kirchhelle Claas <1987-> |
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Pyrrhic progress : the history of antibiotics in Anglo-American food production / / Claas Kirchhelle |
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New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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9780813591506 |
0813591503 |
9780813591513 |
0813591511 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Critical issues in health and medicine |
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Antibiotics in agriculture - United States - History |
Antibiotics in agriculture - Great Britain - History |
Drug resistance in microorganisms |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The sound of coughing pigs -- Picking one's poisons : antibiotics and the public -- Chemical cornucopia : antibiotics on the farm -- Toxic priorities : antibiotics and the FDA -- A fusion of concerns : antibiotics and the British public -- Bigger, better, faster : antibiotics and British farming -- Typing resistance : antibiotic regulation in Britain -- The public : antibiotics, failed bans, and growing fears -- The agricultural community : hostility in sinking numbers -- The government : failing to regulate -- Yearning for purity -- British farming and the environmental turn -- Swann song : British antibiotic policy after 1969. |
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Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production. Mass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture. Food producers used antibiotics to prevent and treat disease, protect plants, preserve food, and promote animals' growth. |
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Many soon became dependent on routine antibiotic use to sustain and increase production. The resulting growth of antibiotic infrastructures came at a price. Critics blamed antibiotics for leaving dangerous residues in food, enabling bad animal welfare, and selecting for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria, which could no longer be treated with antibiotics. Pyrrhic Progress reconstructs the complicated negotiations that accompanied this process of risk prioritization between consumers, farmers, and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic. Unsurprisingly, solutions differed: while Europeans implemented precautionary antibiotic restrictions to curb AMR, consumer concerns and cost-benefit assessments made US regulators focus on curbing drug residues in food. The result was a growing divergence of antibiotic stewardship and a rise of AMR. Kirchhelle's comprehensive analysis of evolving non-human antibiotic use and the historical complexities of antibiotic stewardship provides important insights for current debates on the global burden of AMR. |
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