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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences »

Authors: Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star, Susan Leigh Star
ISBN-13: 9780262522953, ISBN-10: 0262522950
Format: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: August 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Geoffrey C. Bowker

Geoffrey C. Bowker is Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University.

Book Synopsis

Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: To Classify Is Human	1
1	Some Tricks of the Trade in Analyzing Classification	33
2	The Kindness of Strangers: Kinds and Politics in Classification Systems	53
3	The ICD as Information Infrastructure	107
4	Classification, Coding, and Coordination	135
5	Of Tuberculosis and Trajectories	165
6	The Case of Race Classification and Reclassification under Apartheid	195
7	What a Difference a Name Makes - the Classification of Nursing Work	229
8	Organisational Forgetting, Nursing Knowledge, and Classification	255
9	Categorical Work and Boundary Infrastructures: Enriching Theories of Classification	285
10	Why Classifications Matter	319
	Notes	327
	References	335
	Name Index	367
	Subject Index	373