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• Life Without Disease: The Pursuit of Medical Utopia (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William B. Schwartz (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Sources of Medical Technology: Universities and Industry (1995), ed. by Nathan Rosenberg, Annetine C. Gelijns, and Holly V. Dawkins (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Nanomedicine: Basic Capabilities (c1999), by Robert A. Freitas (HTML with commentary at nanomedicine.com)

• Access: How Do Good Health Technologies Get to Poor People in Poor Countries? (c2008), by Laura J. Frost and Michael Reich (PDF files with commentary at accessbook.org)

• Biology, Medicine, and the Bill of Rights (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Patent-Term Extension and the Pharmaceutical Industry (OTA-CIT-143; 1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Life Without Disease: The Pursuit of Medical Utopia (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William B. Schwartz (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2013), by Sarah Franklin
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2019), by Joseph Michael Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• Mastering the Global Transition on Our Way to Society 3.0 (2014), by Ronald van den Hoff (PDF with commentary at society30.com)
• The Social Media Reader (New York and London: New York University Press, c2012), ed. by Michael Mandiberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• When Media Are New: Understanding the Dynamics of New Media Adoption and Use (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2010), by John Carey and M. C. J. Elton (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• The Geek's Chihuahua: Living With Apple (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2015), by Ian Bogost (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
• The Battle for Open: How Openness Won and Why It Doesn't Feel Like Victory (London: Ubiquity Press, 2014), by Martin Weller (multiple formats at ubiquitypress.com)
• Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies (c2012), ed. by Diana Oblinger (PDF and HTML files with commentary at Educause)
• Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (2007), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)
• Applications of R&D in the Civil Sector: The Opportunity Provided by the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977 (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Health of the Scientific and Technical Enterprise: An Advisory Panel Report to the Office of Technology Assessment (1978), by United States Office of Technology Assessment Health of the Scientific and Technical Enterprise Advisory Panel
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), ed. by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• The Middle Path for the Future of Thailand: Technology in Harmony With Culture and Environment (c1990), by Sippanon Ketthat, contrib. by Robert B. Textor (PDF at Stanford)

• Introducing Vigilant Audiences (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Daniel Trottier, Rashid Gabdulhakov, and Qian Huang (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), ed. by Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Philipp Schröder (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1999; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1999), ed. by James E. Alatis and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)

• Untimely Interventions: AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Ross Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• AIDS: The Burdens of History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), ed. by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox (HTML at UC Press)

• Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), ed. by Deborah H. Holdstein and David Bleich (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Aging in the Social Space (Białystok-Kraków: Association of Social Gerontologists, 2015), by Łukasz Tomczyk and Andrzej Klimczuk
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at SSOAR

• Social, Economic, and Institutional Aspects of Agro-Forestry, ed. by J. K. Jackson (HTML at UNU Press)

• Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and Its Histories (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, c2018), by Abigail Woods, Michael Bresalier, Angela Cassidy, and Rachel Mason Dentinger (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer)

• How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Karl Steel (PDF at Ohio State)

• Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text, by Irene A. Bierman (HTML at UC Press)

• Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade (Madrid: BBVA, c2018), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Martin J. Rees, José M. Sánchez Ron, María Martinón-Torres, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Tiwari, Joanna J. Bryson, Ramon López de Mántaras, José M. Mato, Daniela Rus, Samuel H. Sternberg, Peter Kalmus, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Victoria Robinson, Barry J. Eichengreen, Michelle Baddeley, Nancy H. Chau, S. M. Ravi Kanbur, Vivien Ann Schmidt, Diana Marie Owen, Yang Xu, Carlo Ratti, and Amos N. Guiora (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by Elena Esposito (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (2005), by International Academy of Astronautics and European Space Agency (PDF at esa.int)

• Re-Awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2010), ed. by John Robert Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch, and Michael Walsh (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Social Rule: A Study of the Will to Power (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1916), by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality (open access edition; New York and London: Routledge, 2022), by Zachary J. McDowell and Matthew A. Vetter (PDF files at taylorfrancis.com)

• Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2008), by Jonathan Alexander (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Towards an Ethics of Autism: A Philosophical Exploration (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Kristien Hens (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• Banks and Social Responsibility (ACSJC occasional paper #17; North Blackburn, Vic.: CollinsDove, c1993), by David Farmer (PDF in Australia)

• Data Feminism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism Through Big Data (London: University College London Press, 2022), by Chiara Bonacchi (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Essays of a Biologist (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1923), by Julian Huxley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by Joseph Michael Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)

• Ending Book Hunger: Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2019), by Lea Bishop Shaver (PDF with commentary at bookhunger.org)

• Violence and Disruption in Society: A Study of the Early Buddhist Texts, by Elizabeth J. Harris (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Buddhism and Social Action: An Exploration, by Ken Jones (HTML at Access to Insight)

• Icon, Brand, Myth: The Calgary Stampede (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), ed. by Max Foran (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Who Survives Cancer? (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Howard P. Greenwald (HTML at UC Press)

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