Ownership of Knowledge by Dagmar Schafer - ISBN: 9780262545594
Paperback
Who owns knowledge? Technology, power, and inequality’s hidden code.

Ownership of Knowledge

Beyond Intellectual Property

  • Paperback

    440 pages

  • Release Date

    22 August 2023

Summary

A framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society.

Scholars of science, technology, medicine, and law have all tended to emphasize knowledge as the sum of human understanding, and its ownership as possession by law. Breaking with traditional discourse on knowledge property as something that concerns mainly words and intellectual history, or science and law, Dagmar Schäfer, Annapurna Mamidipudi, and Marius Buning propose technology as a …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262545594
ISBN-10:0262545594
Author:Dagmar Schafer
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:440
Release Date:22 August 2023
Weight:369g
Dimensions:229mm x 178mm
About The Author

Dagmar Schafer

Dagmar Schäfer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

Annapurna Mamidipudi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Technical University of Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

Marius Buning is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo.

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