Ontologies for Developing Things offers a series of conceptually inventive analyses of the future-making processes put in motion in contemporary health care systems with the introduction of electronic patient records and other communication technologies. The book shows how such technological development and implementation processes are bound up with multiple other issues: professional, social, economic and political. Through such processes health care ontologies gradually change, often with unanticipated effects. In analyzing these effects, Jensen offers a highly innovative interpretation of...
Ontologies for Developing Things offers a series of conceptually inventive analyses of the future-making processes put in motion in contemporary h...
This is an excellent edited collection that points to new lines of inquiry in the areas explored. The editors must congratulate themselves in pulling together a fine body of work.JRAI
To consider anew the relation of science and humanities beyond the simplistic finger-pointing of "social constructivism" or the reductivism of STS, as this book does, is an important direction for continuing Deleuze's project.SubStance
This remarkable work... creates a compelling radicalism from which to broach issues and problems that turn out to belong to no one...
This is an excellent edited collection that points to new lines of inquiry in the areas explored. The editors must congratulate themselves in pulli...
Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, international politics and the promises and fears of enhanced connectivity. In tandem with increasing concerns about climate change and the anthropocene, there is further an urgency around contemporary infrastructural provision: a concern about its fragility, and an awareness that these connective, relational systems significantly shape both local and planetary futures in ways that we need to understand more clearly. Offering a rich set of...
Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, i...
