Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology, and Science by Daniel Lee Kleinman; Kelly Moore; (eds.)

By Daniel Lee Kleinman; Kelly Moore; (eds.)

During the last decade or so, the sector of technology and expertise reviews (STS) has develop into an intellectually dynamic interdisciplinary area. recommendations, tools, and theoretical views are being drawn either from fashioned and comparatively younger disciplines. From its origins in philosophical and political debates concerning the production and use of medical wisdom, STS has develop into a large and deep area for the respect of where of technological know-how and expertise on the earth, previous and present.

The Routledge instruction manual of technology, know-how and Society seeks to catch the dynamism and breadth of the sector by way of featuring paintings that pushes the reader to consider technological know-how and know-how and their intersections with social existence in new methods. The interdisciplinary contributions via foreign specialists during this instruction manual are prepared round six subject areas:

embodiment
consuming technoscience
digitization
environments
science as work
rules and standards
This quantity highlights quite a number theoretical and empirical ways to a couple of the chronic – and new – questions within the box. will probably be helpful for college kids and students in the course of the social sciences and arts, together with in technological know-how and know-how reviews, heritage, geography, serious race experiences, sociology, communications, women’s and gender reports, anthropology, and political technology.

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Only some of the labor controversies that emerge in high-tech manufacturing become visible to publics. The visibility of the FoxConn case, he shows, had much to do with the ability of activists to harness the profit-driven framing of the mobile phone as a consumer fashion item to bring labor issues to light through theatricality. Jaita Talukdar’s chapter concludes this section by investigating the consumption not of material products, but of technoscientific ideas about health and eating. S. Through an analysis of women in different parts of the Indian economy, 9 Introduction Talukdar shows that “scientific eating” ideals from the west are hardly taken up wholesale.

Our consumption practices are tracked by internet retailers whose promotions are then geared specifically to us. In this section, authors explore a number of the topics at the intersection of technoscience and consumption, looking at consumption as “ingestion,” as the taking in of information, and as the creation and purchase of particular kinds of technoscientific products. Shobita Parthasarathy’s chapter begins this section, by asking to what extent direct-toconsumer medical genetics testing empowers “somatic” individuals, as not only its marketers but other STS analysts have claimed.

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