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"The term ""technological fix"" should mean a fix provided by technology--a solution for all of our problems, from medicine and food production to the environment and business. Instead, technological fix has come to mean a cheap, quick fix using inappropriate technology that usually creates more problems than it solves. This collection sets out the distinction between a technological fix and a true technological solution. Bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines, the essays trace the technological fix as it has appeared throughout the twentieth century. Addressing such ""fixes"" as artificial hearts, industrial agriculture and climate engineering, these essays examine our need to turn to technology for solutions to all of our problems."

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Author:   Lisa Rosner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9780415947107

ISBN 10:   0415947103
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   11 August 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Technological Fix, Lisa Rosner Section One: Fixing Bodies 1. Artificial Hearts - A Technological Fix More Monstrous Than Miraculous, Shelley McKellar 2. Plugging in to Modernity: Wilshire's I-ON-A-CO and the Psychic Fix, Carolyn Thomas de la Peña 3. Technology and Disability, Jim Tobias Section Two: Fixing Food 4. The Nutritional Enrichment of Flour and Bread: Technological Fix or Half-Baked Solution, Michael Ackerman 5. Long-Haul Trucking and the Technopolitics of Industrial Agriculture, 1945-1975, Shane Hamilton 6. Synthetic Arcadias: Dreams of Meal Pills, Air Food, and Algae Burgers, Warren Belasco Section Three: Fixing the Environment 7. When Everybody Wins Does the Environment Lose? The Environmental Techno-Fix in Twentieth Century American Mining, Timothy J. LeCain 8. Solving Air Pollution Problems Once and For All: The Potential and the Limits of Technological Fixes, Frank UeKoetter 9. Fixing the Weather and Climate: Military and Civilian Schemes for Cloud Seeding and Climate Engineering, James R. Fleming 10. The Problem of Computer-Computer Communication, 1995-2000: ATechnological Fix?, Paul E. Ceruzzi 11. Innovation Junctions: Office Technologies in the Netherlands, 1880-1980, Onno de Wit, Jan Van den Ende, Johan Schot and Ellen van Oost Afterword, Thomas P. Hughes

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Lisa Rosner is Professor of History at Richard Stockton College. A specialist in the history of science, technology, and medicine, she is the consulting editor of The Chronology of Science from Stonehenge to the HumanGenome Project.

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