"An A-Z glossary of "cultures of contagion", conceived literally and metaphorically, and approaxched from multiple historical perspectives"--Includes index.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An introduction to the technology of contact tracing and its usefulness for public health, considering questions of efficacy, equity, and privacy. Contact tracing is key to containing and controlling the spread of a virus in a pandemic. South Korea, China, and Singapore were among the few countries that quickly employed contact tracing after the emergence of COVID-19; the United States did not.…
"Shows the flaws in using "the war metaphor" to understand and organize our response to pandemics and urges its abandonment"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Argues that our contemporary treatment of the image as a circulating object was forged by three 20th century institutions: the museum, the library, and the stock photography agency"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"How cultural and technological objects can reveal more information than their creators or sharers intended, or even imagined, when introduced into new contexts"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Translation of: La prima alba del cosmo, ? 2019 Mondadori Libri S.p.A., Milano.Includes index."Roberto Battiston traces the intellectual path that has brought us to our current understanding of the universe, intertwining our most recent discoveries with the passion and the ambition of the scientists that made them possible"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Splinters of Infinity is set in a paradigm-shattering era of physics and science, as a series of rapid-fire discoveries and new ideas completely upend humanity's conception of the universe. Among these revolutions, America's two foremost physicists, Robert Millikan and Arthur Compton, find themselves locked in an intense, often deeply personal, conflict about cosmic rays, one of the era's most…
"Care-Centered Politics provides a framework for the vision and the linkages needed to help create a more care-centered society and planet"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"An original view of human corporeality linking myths, legends, and fables with biomedical concepts about some bodily parts"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"This book critiques and complicates the stereotypes of autistic youth by presenting the first in-depth ethnographic study of their everyday uses of media and technology"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.