Standards Recipes for Reality

• Main Author: Busch, Lawrence
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass MIT Press 2011; The MIT Press
• Edition: 1
• Series: Infrastructures
• Subjects: Auditing; Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies; Democracy; General Topics for Engineers; Honesty; Modernity; Risk; Science; Science, Technology & Society; Social systems; Standardization; Standardization > Social aspects; Trust
• ISBN: 9780262016384; 0262016389
• DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8962.001.0001

Standards 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...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Power of Standards -- Standardizing the World -- From Standardization to Standardized Differentiation -- Certified, Accredited, Licensed, Approved -- Standards, Ethics, and Justice -- Standards and Democracy -- Conclusions: Another Road to Serfdom? -- Notes -- References -- Index