Ontologies for developing things : : making health care futures through technology / / Casper Bruun Jensen.

• Superior document: Transdisciplinary Studies ; Volume 3
• VerfasserIn: Jensen, Casper Bruun,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Boston ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Transdisciplinary studies ; Volume 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Ontologies for Developing Things is a work of unflagging intelligence and intellectual energy, spilling over with new ideas, surprising angles, sharp perceptions and interesting juxtapositions, and written with correspondingly attractive punch and force. Readers interested in information technologies, contemporary developments in social studies of science, and related cultural and political theory will find the book immensely engaging and endlessly useful. - Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Duke University and Brown University [author of Scandalous Knowledge: Science Truth and the Human and/or Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion].

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- An Amodern Disposition -- Researching Partially Existing Objects -- The Birth of a Future-Generating Device -- Traveling Standards -- Citizen Projects and Consensus Building at the Danish Board of Technology -- Infrastructural Fractals -- Sorting Attachments and the Multiplicity of Usefulness -- Power, Technology and Medical Sociology -- Established Sentiments, Alternative Agendas, and Politics of Concretization -- Bibliography -- Index.