Sorting Things Out Classification and Its Consequences

Name: Sorting Things Out Classification and Its Consequences
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ISBN: 9780262522953

ISBN-10: 0262522950

ISBN-13: 9780262522953

Edition: 2000 (Reprint)

Authors: Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star

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This book investigates a variety of classification systems that shape the modern world, including the Nursing Interventions Classification, the International Classification of Diseases, and race classification under apartheid in South Africa.

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/25/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 389
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: To Classify Is Human



Some Tricks of the Trade in Analyzing Classification



Classification and Large-Scale Infrastructures



The Kindness of Strangers: Kinds and Politics in Classification Systems



The ICD as Information Infrastructure



Classification, Coding, and Coordination



Classification and Biography, or System and Suffering



Of Tuberculosis and Trajectories



The Case of Race Classification and Reclassification under Apartheid



Classification and Work Practice



What Difference a Name Makes -- the Classification of Nursing Work



Organizational Forgetting, Nursing Knowledge, and Classification



The Theory and Practice of Classifications



Categorical Work and Boundary Infrastructures: Enriching Theories of Classification



Why Classifications Matter


Notes


References


Name Index


Subject Index