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Nature 438, 562-563 (1 December 2005) | doi:10.1038/438562a; Published online 30 November 2005
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Cultural reflections
Howard P. Segal1
BOOK REVIEWED-Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Technology and Science
by Mikael Hård & Andrew Jamison
Routledge: 2005. 335 pp. $90 (hbk); $29.95 (pbk)
It is a truism that culture, broadly defined, shapes science and technology as much as they shape culture. This once controversial position became the conventional wisdom decades ago, after purely internal histories of science and technology, followed by largely uncritical interpretations of their developments, were displaced as the dominant models.
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