Book ID: 77008
Bowker, Geoffrey C. and Susan Leigh Star
Sorting things out: Classifi- cation and its consequences. 1999. illus. XII, 377 p. Hardcover.
Classified by The Library of Congress under 'Speculative philosophy'(TAXON, 49:1, p.156, Rudolf Schmid).- Contents (partly): Some Tricks ofthe Trade in Analyzing Classification/ Classification and Large-ScaleInfrastructures/ The Kindness of Strangers: Kinds and Politics inClassification Systems/ The ICD as Information Infrastructure/Classification, Coding, and Coordination/ Classification and Biography,or System and Suffering/ Of Tuberculosis and Trajectories/ The Caseof Race Classification and Reclassification under Apartheid/Classification and Work Practice/ etc.