Standards: Recipes for Reality

by Lawrence Busch

Book Overview

An investigation into standards, the invisible infrastructures of our technical, moral, social, and physical worlds.

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 standards, many of which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262525054
• ISBN13: 9780262525053
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher