wyszukanych pozycji: 3
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Risk, Culture, and Health Inequality: Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame
ISBN: 9780275978693 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Examines the diverse uses and abuses of risk by social actors across a wide range of cultural, ethnic, and geographical locales. The introductory chapter by the two co-editors analyzes and contextualizes current scholarly debates on the social, cultural, and political construction of risk. It is followed by an overview on the anthropology of harm reduction that outlines an innovative framework for culturally informed risk analysis. The remaining nine chapters are organized into three sections, The Cultivation of Fear, Perceptions of Health, Safety, and Hazard: Risk Makers and Risk Takers,... Examines the diverse uses and abuses of risk by social actors across a wide range of cultural, ethnic, and geographical locales. The introductory c... |
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383,72 zł |
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The Social Life of Nanotechnology
ISBN: 9780415899055 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume shows how nanotechnology takes on a wide range of socio-historically specific meanings in the context of globalization, across multiple localities, institutions and collaborations, through diverse industries, research labs, and government agencies and in a variety of discussions within the public sphere itself. It explores the early origins of nanotechnologies; the social, economic, and political organization of the field; and the cultural and subjective meanings ascribed to nanotechnologies in social settings. This volume shows how nanotechnology takes on a wide range of socio-historically specific meanings in the context of globalization, across multiple... |
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758,60 zł |
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The Social Life of Nanotechnology
ISBN: 9780415629621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book addresses the interconnections and tensions between technological development, the social benefits and risks of new technology, and the changing political economy of a global world system as they apply to the emerging field of nanotechnologies. The basic premise, developed throughout the volume, is that nanotechnologies have an undertheorized and often invisible social life that begins with their constructed origins and propels them around the globe, across multiple localities, institutions and collaborations, through diverse industries, research labs, and government agencies and...
This book addresses the interconnections and tensions between technological development, the social benefits and risks of new technology, and the chan...
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273,04 zł |