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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"Program in Science, Technology and Society."”.
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Paul Revere's metallurgical ride : craft and proto-industry in early America
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2001.
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Shipbuilding, markets, and technological change in East Boston
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1995.
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In the name of truth : sacrifical ideals and American science, 1870-1930
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1998.
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Atomic workers, atomic city : labor and community in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1942-1950
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1997.
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"Datum for its own annihilation" : feedback, control, and computing, 1916-1945
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1996.
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The spindles stop : Lowell, Massachusetts, and Manchester, New Hampshire respond to the collapse of the New England textile industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1995.
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Catastrophe and control : how technological disasters enhance democracy
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1994.
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The needle and the lancet : British acupuncture and the cross-cultural transmission of medical knowledge
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1997.
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The emergence of a deaf economy
Thesis: S.B. in Science in Humanities and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2014.
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Economy electric : techno-economics, neoliberalism, and electricity in the United States
… a study of emergent economic forms of life. It investigates recent remakings of economic existence and modes of disseminating these forms of life, and does so with particular reference to the crafting of electricity markets in the United States. It draws on more than a year of fieldwork among …
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Flesh yours, bones mine : the making of the biomedical subject in Turkey
… technologies, human body parts from living or dead donors have become commodities in the international networks of trade. This dissertation tries to understand religious, political and ethical discourses on this emerging economy and how it creates its subjects in Turkey. By drawing …
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Governing the shark : predators and people in the twentieth century and beyond
This dissertation examines the history of shark-human interactions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It argues that the mid-twentieth century onward saw a series of conjunctures -technological, cultural, and scientific -that thrust sharks and humans into unprecedented levels of contact. …
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The expertise of germs : practice, language and authority in American bacteriology, 1899-1924
… the development of American bacteriology during the first quarter of the twentieth century. While bacteriology experienced a period of rapid growth, an enduring disciplinary anxiety equally characterized the field. In particular, bacteriologists feared increasing specialization and conceptual …
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The bureaucracy of empathy : vivisection and the question of animal pain in Britain, 1876-1912
This dissertation examines the mutually reinforcing connections between science and law and their construction of pain in British regulation of animal experimentation. It investigates the Home Office's implementation of the Cruelty to Animals Act (1876), the first effort anywhere in the world to …
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Making a digital working class : Uber drivers in Boston, 2016-2017
… life over the past decade. Most people now routinely carry around with them millions of times more computing power than generated the Apollo mission to the Moon. They use it to access, process, and share information quickly and cheaply, in furtherance of the things people have long done: buying …
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Placing outer space : an earthly ethnography of other worlds
This dissertation concerns the role of place in scientific practice. Ideas of place, I argue, shape and are shaped by science. I specifically look at the community of planetary scientists who, though they cannot step foot on the objects they study, transform planets into places. This is an …
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Negotiating nature : expertise and environment in the Klamath River Basin
"Negotiating Nature" explores resource management in action and the intertwined roles of law and science in environmental conflicts in the Upper Klamath River Basin in southern Oregon. I follow disputes over the management of water and endangered species. I develop several themes: first, how these …
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Biocapital : the constitution of post-genomic life
(cont.) In the process, this thesis intervenes in social theoretical debates not simply around the nature and production of knowledge and value, but also around the place of larger belief-systems - relating to religion, nation and ethics - in such productive enterprises. It simultaneously …
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Insiders and outsiders : nuclear arms control experts in Cold War America
… of the community of nuclear arms control experts in the United States during the middle and later years of the Cold War, the age of thermonuclear ballistic missiles. Arms control experts were, in many interesting ways, both insiders and outsiders to the American "nuclear state." The dissertation …
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Corporate bodies and chemical bonds : an STS analysis of natural gas development in the United States
Natural gas extraction in the United States in the early 21st century has transformed social, physical, legal and biological landscapes. The technique of hydraulic fracturing, which entails the high-pressure injection into subsurface shale formations of synthetic chemical mixtures, has been viewed …
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