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035 _a(CaBNVSL)mat06783518
035 _a(IDAMS)0b000064820d17ad
040 _aCaBNVSL
_beng
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_cCaBNVSL
_dCaBNVSL
050 4 _aT14.5
_b.V85 2014eb
245 0 0 _aVulnerability in technological cultures :
_bnew directions in research and governance /
_cedited by Anique Hommels, Jessica Mesman, and Wiebe E. Bijker.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bMIT Press,
_c[2014]
264 2 _a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] :
_bIEEE Xplore,
_c[2014]
300 _a1 PDF (xi, 382 pages).
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aelectronic
_2isbdmedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aInside technology
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
506 1 _aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520 _aNovel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable to human error and technical malfunctioning that have far-reaching consequences: one flipped switch can cause a cascading power failure across a networked electric grid. Yet, once addressed, vulnerability accompanied by coping mechanisms may yield a more flexible and resilient society. This book investigates vulnerability, in both its negative and positive aspects, in technological cultures. The contributors argue that viewing risk in terms of vulnerability offers a novel approach to understanding the risks and benefits of science and technology. Such an approach broadens conventional risk analysis by connecting to issues of justice, solidarity, and livelihood, and enabling comparisons between the global north and south. The book explores case studies that range from agricultural practices in India to neonatal intensive care medicine in Western hospitals; these cases, spanning the issues addressed in the book, illustrate what vulnerability is and does. The book offers conceptual frameworks for empirical description and analysis of vulnerability that elucidate its ambiguity, context dependence, and constructed nature. Finally, the book addresses the implications of these analyses for the governance of vulnerability, proposing a more reflexive way of dealing with vulnerability in technological cultures.ContributorsMarjolein van Asselt, Martin Boeckhout, Wiebe Bijker, Tessa Fox, Stephen Healy, Anique Hommels, Sheila Jasanoff,Jozef Keulartz, Jessica Mesman, Ger Palmboom, C. Shambu Prasad, Julia Quartz, Johan M. Sanne, Maartje Schermer, Teesta Setelvad, Esha Shah, Andy Stirling, Imrat Verhoeven, Esther Versluis, Shiv Visvanathan, Gerard de Vries, Ger Wackers, Dick Willems.
530 _aAlso available in print.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web
588 _aDescription based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015.
650 0 _aTechnology
_xSocial aspects.
_95136
655 0 _aElectronic books.
_93294
700 1 _aMesman, Jessica,
_d1962-,
_eeditor of compilation.
_924328
700 1 _aBijker, Wiebe E,
_eeditor of compilation.
_924329
700 1 _aHommels, Anique,
_eeditor of compilation.
_924330
710 2 _aIEEE Xplore (Online Service),
_edistributor.
_924331
710 2 _aMIT Press,
_epublisher.
_924332
776 0 8 _iPrint version
_z9780262027106
830 0 _aInside technology.
_921703
856 4 2 _3Abstract with links to resource
_uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6783518
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999 _c73370
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