Contested Categories

Life Sciences in Society

Ayo Wahlberg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

228 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27690-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Susanne Bauer is postdoctoral researcher at Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Ayo Wahlberg, until recently at the London School of Economics, UK, is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Chapter 1 Human and Object, Subject and Thing: The Troublesome Nature of HumanSubstances of the Body: Blood, Genes, and Personhood, Malin Noem Ravn; Chapter 3 Governing Risk Through Informed Choice: Prenatal Testing in Welfarist Maternity Care, Mianna Meskus; Chapter 4 Visualizing and Calculating Life: Matters of Fact in the Context of Prenatal Risk Assessment, Nete Schwennesen, Lene Koch; Chapter 5 Serious Disease as Kinds of Living, Ayo Wahlberg; Chapter 6 From Society to Molecule and Back: The Contested Scale of Public Health Science, Susanne Bauer; Chapter 7 Life Beyond Information: Contesting Life and the Body in History and MolecularThe Place and Space of Research Work: Studying Control in aAlmost Human: Scientific and Popular Strategies for Making Sense of ‘Missing Links’, Murray Goulden, Andrew S. Balmer;

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2017
Reihe/Serie	Theory, Technology and Society
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-27690-1 / 1138276901
ISBN-13	978-1-138-27690-1 / 9781138276901
Zustand	Neuware