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Lawrence Busch, “Standards: Recipes for Reality” (MIT Press, 2011)

New Books in Science
New Books in Science
Episode • Apr 16, 2012 • 1h 2m

As Lawrence Busch reminds us, standards are all around us governing seating arrangements, medicine, experimental objects and subjects and even romance novels. In Standards: Recipes for Reality (MIT Press, 2011) Busch provides a wide ranging and accessible analysis of the ways that standards structure the world. More than simply providing...

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