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Preface | ||
General Introduction | 1 | |
I | Do Technologies Have Trajectories? | |
Introduction | 17 | |
1 | The Life and Death of an Aircraft: A Network Analysis of Technical Change | 21 |
2 | What's in a Patent? | 53 |
3 | The Social Construction of Fluorescent Lighting, or How an Artifact Was Invented in Its Diffusion Stage | 75 |
II | Strategies, Resources, and the Shaping of Technology | |
Introduction | 105 | |
4 | Controversy and Closure in Technological Change: Constructing "Steel" | 109 |
5 | Closing the Ranks: Definition and Stabilization of Radioactive Wastes in the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1945-1960 | 140 |
6 | Artifacts and Frames of Meaning: Thomas A. Edison, His Managers, and the Cultural Construction of Motion Pictures | 175 |
III | What Next? Technology, Theory, and Method | |
Introduction | 201 | |
7 | The De-Scription of Technical Objects | 205 |
8 | Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts | 225 |
9 | A Summary of a Convenient Vocabulary for the Semiotics of Human and Nonhuman Assemblies | 259 |
10 | Technology, Testing, Text: Clinical Budgeting in the U.K. National Health Service | 265 |
11 | Postscript: Technology, Stability, and Social Theory | 290 |
References | 309 | |
Contributors | 327 | |
Index | 331 |
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