Cultures of Control (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine) - Softcover

Levin, Miriam R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9058230139 ISBN 13: 9789058230133

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

This collection explores the history of control by looking at a variety of cultural forms, practices and beliefs.

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Review:

"Cultures of Control serves as an index of the advance of science and technology studies. These fine, informative and often path-breaking essays explore how technology and culture mutually interact and form each other. The older conundrums of technological determinism and idealism are considerably surpassed in a set of essays that is remarkably coherent given the disciplinary diversity of the authors, and yet fruitfully integrates these two terms in concrete analyses of specific technologies and specific cultural formations. Anyone interested in the history of technology or its empirical relation to culture ought to take a look at Levin's collection."
-Mark Poster of University of California, Irvine
"Miriam Levin and the other authors in Cultures of Control show that 'control' and 'technology' have similar connotations and are nearly interchangeable."
-Thomas P. Hughes of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 9058230139
• ISBN 13: 9789058230133
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294