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" The technological fix : "
edited by Lisa Rosner.
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BL
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104840
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b62385
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| Title & Author
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The technological fix : : how people use technology to create and solve problems /\ edited by Lisa Rosner.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Routledge,, c2004.
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| Series Statement
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Hagley perspectives on business and culture
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265 p. :: ill., map ;; 24 cm.
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0415947103
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: 0415947111 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction / Lisa Rosner -- Fixing Bodies -- Artificial Hearts : A Technological Fix More Monstrous Than Miraculous? / Shelley McKellar -- Plugging in to Modernity : Wilshire's I-ON-A-CO and the Psychic Fix / Carolyn Thomas de la Peą -- Technology and Disability / Jim Tobias -- Fixing Food -- The Nutritional Enrichment of Flour and Bread : Technological Fix or Half-Baked Solution / Michael Ackerman -- Long-Haul Trucking and the Technopolitics of Industrial Agriculture, 1945-1975 / Shane Hamilton -- Synthetic Arcadias : Dreams of Meal Pills, Air Food, and Algae Burgers / Warren Belasco -- Fixing the Environment -- When Everybody Wins Does the Environment Lose? The Environmental Techno-Fix in Twentieth Century American Mining / Timothy J. LeCain -- Solving Air Pollution Problems Once and For All : The Potential and the Limits of Technological Fixes / Frank UeKoetter -- Fixing the Weather and Climate : Military and Civilian Schemes for Cloud Seeding and Climate Engineering / James R. Fleming -- Fixing Business -- The "Problem" of Computer-Computer Communication, 1995-2000 : A Technological Fix? / Paul E. Ceruzzi -- Innovation Junctions / Onno de Wit, Jan Van den Ende, Johan Schot, and Ellen van Oost.
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| Subject
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Technology-- Social aspects, Case studies.
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Technological innovations, Case studies.
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| Dewey Classification
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303.48/3
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T14.5.T43955 2004
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| Added Entry
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Rosner, Lisa.
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