Boel Berner is a sociologist, historian, and professor emerita at Linköping University in Sweden. In her research she investigates the character and power of expertise, historically and today. She has studied education and work, the gendered nature of technical knowledge, household modernization, and issues of risk. Her current work is oriented towards the history of medicine. It focuses, besides questions of blood donation and transfusion, on the politics of blood group analysis in the interwar years.
8 Ebooks by Boel Berner
Boel Berner & Jane Summerton: Constructing Risk and Safety in Technological Practice
Modern technological systems entail risks and uncertainties of hitherto unknown dimensions. This book discusses the construction of risk and safety within a variety of empirical contexts where …
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€119.01
Boel Berner & Jane Summerton: Constructing Risk and Safety in Technological Practice
Modern technological systems entail risks and uncertainties of hitherto unknown dimensions. This book discusses the construction of risk and safety within a variety of empirical contexts where …
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€48.85
Boel Berner & Jane Summerton: Constructing Risk and Safety in Technological Practice
Modern technological systems entail risks and uncertainties of hitherto unknown dimensions. This book discusses the construction of risk and safety within a variety of empirical contexts where …
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DRM
€48.54
Boel Berner: Technology and Medical Practice
The advanced technologies being used in diagnosis and care within modern medicine, whilst supporting and making medical practices possible, may also conflict with established traditions of medicine …
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€55.22
Boel Berner: Technology and Medical Practice
The advanced technologies being used in diagnosis and care within modern medicine, whilst supporting and making medical practices possible, may also conflict with established traditions of medicine …
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English
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€55.07
Boel Berner & Per Trulsson: Manoeuvring in an Environment of Uncertainty
This title was first published in 2000. Recent years have seen tremendous economic and political changes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors to this volume focus on the pressing problem of how …
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€61.12
Boel Berner & Per Trulsson: Manoeuvring in an Environment of Uncertainty
This title was first published in 2000. Recent years have seen tremendous economic and political changes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors to this volume focus on the pressing problem of how …
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€61.32
Boel Berner: Strange Blood
In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia; proposed it …
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