On the signature of new technologies: Materiality, sociality and practical reasoning

Risk and the Public Acceptance of New Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 41-65

  Horlick Jones, Tom ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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PRACTICAL REASONING;

EID: 84996445437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230591288     Document Type: Chapter

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