Sorting things out : classification and its consequences / Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star.
Sorting things out : classification and its consequences / Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star.
Sorting things out : classification and its consequences / Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999.
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T0368477
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English
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xii, 377 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: To Classify Is Human -- 1. Some Tricks of the Trade in Analyzing Classification -- 2. The Kindness of Strangers: Kinds and Politics in Classification Systems -- 3. The ICD as Information Infrastructure -- 4. Classification, Coding, and Coordination -- 5. Of Tuberculosis and Trajectorie...
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999.
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First MIT Press paperback edition, 2000.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c1999.
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"The authors emphasize the role of invisibility in the process by which classification orders human interaction. They examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary. They also explore systems of classification as part of the built information environment. Sorting Things Out has a moral...
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Sorting things out : classification and its consequences / Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star.
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Inside technology.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-365) and indexes.
Transferred from N001.012/5.
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c1999.
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T0368477
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74VvWRyGLvx3
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0262522950 (pbk.)
9780262024617 (alk. paper)
0262024616 (alk. paper)
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0262024616 :
9780262522953 (pbk)
0262522950 (pbk)
9780262522953 (pbk.)
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001.012
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991011943609702626
