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Published by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2008
ISBN 10: 1433101289ISBN 13: 9781433101281
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.
Published by Peter Lang, 2008
ISBN 10: 1433101289ISBN 13: 9781433101281
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book questions whether technologies are the rational, tangible, scientific, forward-thinking, neutral objects they are so often perceived to be, exploring instead how powerful, mythic ideas about technologies drive our social understanding and our expectations of them. Against a rising tide of information, we encounter significant technological, scientific, and medical advances which promise to create an educated, humane, and equal world. This book explores that promise, deconstructing technologies to conclude that though they do afford us significant and empowering advances, they remain largely cloaked in mystery, and often promise more than they can deliver. Contributors from diverse intellectual backgrounds and political and epistemological stances - spanning sociology and psychosocial investigations, innovation studies, and scientists - combine philosophical inquiry and empirical case studies to create a book which is at once provocative, innovative, and exciting in the challenges it poses.