David J. Gunkel, "Robot Rights" (MIT Press, 2018)

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Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel to how the global economy is managed. But few people likely give them more than a second thought. In a way, the barcode's ordinar ...  Show more

Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)

A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe and glass tube to inject half a drop of sperm into a woman’s uterus, marking the fi ...  Show more

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