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High and Low Technology

Sustaining Life at Home

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Miriam Orleans  and
Peter Orleans
Miriam Orleans
Affiliation:
University of Colorado Medical School
Peter Orleans
Affiliation:
Denver, Colorado
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Extract

In 1971, Victor Papanek published Design for the Real World (1), a book which attacked the lack of problem-oriented and population-based reasoning in industrial design. The lack of congruence between need and production, from Papanek's perspective, had resulted in exotic, costly, and idiosyncratic responses to a gadget-oriented market (2).

Type
Advanced Technology and Health Care in the Home
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , April 1985 , pp. 353 - 363
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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