The invisible infrastructure of standards

The gold standard: the challenge of evidence-based medicine and standardization in health care, by Stefan Timmermans and Marc Berg, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-1-59213-188-4; Standards and their stories: how quantifying, classifying, and formalizing practices shape everyday life, edited by Martha Lampland and Susan Leigh Star, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8014-7461-3.