Contested Categories : Life Sciences in Society.
Başlık:
Contested Categories : Life Sciences in Society.
Yazar:
Wahlberg, Ayo.
ISBN:
9780754698678
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (229 pages)
Seri:
Theory, Technology and Society
İçerik:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: Categories of Life -- 1 Human and Object, Subject and Thing: The Troublesome Nature of Human Biological Material (HBM) -- 2 Substances of the Body: Blood, Genes, and Personhood -- 3 Governing Risk Through Informed Choice: Prenatal Testing in Welfarist Maternity Care -- 4 Visualizing and Calculating Life: Matters of Fact in the Context of Prenatal Risk Assessment -- 5 Serious Disease as Kinds of Living -- 6 From Society to Molecule and Back: The Contested Scale of Public Health Science -- 7 Life Beyond Information:Contesting Life and the Body in History andMolecular Biology -- 8 The Place and Space of Research Work: Studying Control in a Bioscience Laboratory -- 9 Almost Human: Scientific and Popular Strategies for Making Sense of 'Missing Links' -- Index.
Özet:
Drawing on social science perspectives, Contested Categories presents a series of empirical studies that engage with the often shifting and day-to-day realities of life sciences categories. In doing so, it shows how such categories remain contested and dynamic, and that the boundaries they create are subject to negotiation as well as re-configuration and re-stabilization processes. Organized around the themes of biological substances and objects, personhood and the genomic body and the creation and dispersion of knowledge, each of the volume's chapters reveals the elusive nature of fixity with regard to life science categories. With contributions from an international team of scholars, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the social, legal, policy and ethical implications of science and technology and the life sciences.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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