How Technologies Harm by Mark Wood
Technologies contribute to harms in a variety of ways, but can we ever say they are harmful in-and-of-themselves?
This book offers a new way to understand how technologies, while not intrinsically harmful, are laden with values and dispositions that can contribute to negative outcomes. Building on insights from postphenomenology, realist social theory and the philosophy of action, it provides a framework for examining technology-harm relations: relations with technology that are harmful by virtue of what they contribute to bringing about. It is for anyone seeking to design, regulate, research or simply use technology in a way that prioritizes well-being.
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Harmful Societies
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The Harms of Beauty
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Colonial and Patriarchal Dimensions of State-Corporate Harm
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Against Youth Violence
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Death by the Powerful
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The Harms of Work
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Labour Exploitation and Work-Based Harm
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Environmental Harm
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Crime, Harm and the State
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Social Harm and Neoliberalism
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Border Harms and Everyday Violence
Mark A. Wood is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781529247077 |
| ISBN 10 | 1529247071 |
| Title | How Technologies Harm |
| Author | Mark Wood |
| Series | Studies In Social Harm |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press |
| Year published | 2025-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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