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Title: Material Worlds
Condition: New
Subtitle: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology, and Society
Author: Christopher Lawless
Contributor: Christopher Lawless (Edited by), Alex Faulkner (Edited by)
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781444361520
ISBN: 9781444361520
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Medicine
Release Date: 16/03/2012
Description:

A study of the existing and future research on the intersections between law and materiality, leading to the illumination of both.

  • A theoretically innovative book exploring the intersections between law and materiality
  • Offers new perspectives on a variety of high profile controversial subjects, including climate change, public health, genetics, crime, biomedical technology
  • Investigates the futures of both the sociology of law and the study of science and technology from a novel, interdisciplinary vantage point
  • Illustrates a wide range of empirical topics to provide a focus for critical reflection on the nature of cross-disciplinary research
  • Illuminates relationships between transnational regulation and local practices and the relation between social agency and material worlds

Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 167mm
Item Width: 7mm
Item Weight: 226g
Book Series: Journal of Law and Society Special Issues
Release Year: 2012

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