LEADER 03815nam 2200745 450 001 9910457715503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-262-29785-X 010 $a1-283-30282-9 010 $a9786613302823 010 $a0-262-29873-2 024 8 $a9786613302823 035 $a(CKB)2550000000063278 035 $a(OCoLC)760884537 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10509223 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000541529 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11330245 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541529 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10498675 035 $a(PQKB)11534631 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339327 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat06517054 035 $a(IDAMS)0b00006481d6dddc 035 $a(IEEE)6517054 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00087604 035 $a(OCoLC)760884537$z(OCoLC)759685991$z(OCoLC)778616596$z(OCoLC)816867510$z(OCoLC)868203184$z(OCoLC)870414823$z(OCoLC)939263753$z(OCoLC)961492306$z(OCoLC)962584405$z(OCoLC)988520778$z(OCoLC)990036067$z(OCoLC)991990991$z(OCoLC)1037938402$z(OCoLC)1038687619$z(OCoLC)1038696602$z(OCoLC)1045539026$z(OCoLC)1055394807$z(OCoLC)1059116723$z(OCoLC)1066425719$z(OCoLC)1081231917 035 $a(OCoLC-P)760884537 035 $a(MaCbMITP)8962 035 $a(PPN)220189110 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339327 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10509223 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL330282 035 $a(OCoLC)939263753 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000063278 100 $a20151223d2011 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStandards $erecipes for reality /$fLawrence Busch 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$cMIT Press,$dc2011. 210 2$a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] :$cIEEE Xplore,$d[2011] 215 $a1 online resource (403 p.) 225 1 $aInfrastructures series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-52505-4 311 $a0-262-01638-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aStandards are the means by which we construct realities. There are established standards for professional accreditation, the environment, consumer products, animal welfare, the acceptable stress for highway bridges, healthcare, education -- for almost everything. We are surrounded by a vast array of standards, many of which we take for granted but each of which has been and continues to be the subject of intense negotiation. In this book, Lawrence Busch investigates standards as "recipes for reality." Standards, he argues, shape not only the physical world around us but also our social lives and even our selves. Busch shows how standards are intimately connected to power -- that they often serve to empower some and disempower others. He outlines the history of formal standards and describes how modern science came to be associated with the moral-technical project of standardization of both people and things. Busch suggests guidelines for developing fair, equitable, and effective standards. Taking a uniquely integrated and comprehensive view of the subject, Busch shows how standards for people and things are inextricably linked, how standards are always layered (even if often addressed serially), and how standards are simultaneously technical, social, moral, legal, and ontological devices. 410 0$aInfrastructures series 606 $aStandardization 606 $aStandardization$xSocial aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aStandardization. 615 0$aStandardization$xSocial aspects. 676 $a389/.6 700 $aBusch$b Lawrence$075082 801 0$bCaBNVSL 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457715503321 996 $aStandards$91991320 997 $aUNINA