Collaboration in the New Life Sciences

Herausgeber: Parker, John N.; Penders, Bart; Vermeulen, Niki

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years the organisation and practice of collaboration in the life sciences has undergone radical transformations, owing to the advent of big science enterprises, newly developed data gathering and storage technologies, increasing levels of interdisciplinarity, and changing societal expectations for science. Collaboration in the New Life Sciences examines the causes and consequences of changing patterns of scientific collaboration in the life sciences. This book presents an understanding of how and why collaboration in the life sciences is changing and the effects of these changes on scientific knowledge, the work lives and experiences of scientists, social policy and society. Through a series of thematically arranged chapters, it considers the social, technical, and organizational facets of collaboration, addressing not only the rise of new forms of collaboration in the life sciences, but also examining recent developments in two broad research areas: ecology and environment, and the molecular life sciences. With an international team of experts presenting case studies and analyses drawn from the US, UK, Asia and Europe, Collaboration in the New Life Sciences will appeal not only to scholars and students of science and technology studies, but also to those interested in science and social policy, and the sociology of work and organisations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780754678700
• ISBN-10: 0754678709
• Artikelnr.: 45192253

Autorenporträt

Bart Penders is an assistant professor in Biomedine and Society in the Department of Health, Ethics and Society at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is co-editor of Collaboration Across Health Research and Medical Care. Niki Vermeulen is Lecturer in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and co-editor of Collaboration Across Health Research and Medical Care and Bio-Objects: Life in the 21st Century. John N. Parker is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University. He is co-editor of Collaboration Across Health Research and Medical Care.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Collaboration Arises; Chapter 1 Collecting Collaborations: Understanding Life Together
Niki Vermeulen
Bart Penders; Chapter 2 Organising the Field: Collaboration in the History of Ecology and Environmental Science
Stephen Bocking; Chapter 3 Multidisciplinary Collaborations in Toxicology and Paleo-ecology: Equal Means to Different Ends
Laurens K. Hessels
Stefan de Jong
Harro van Lente; Part II Collaboration in Ecology and the Environment; Chapter 4 Two Approaches to Big Science: An Analysis of LTER and NEON
Ann Zimmerman
Bonnie A. Nardi; Chapter 5 Integrating the Social into the Ecological: Organisational and Research Group Challenges
John N. Parker; Chapter 6 Infrastructuring Ecology: Challenges in Achieving Data Sharing
karen S. Baker
Florence Millerand; Chapter 7 Customisation of Transdisciplinary Collaboration in the Integrated Management of Contaminated Sites
Vivien Behrens
Matthias Gross; Chapter 8 A Data Bias in Interdisciplinary Cooperation in the Sciences: Ecology in Climate Change Research
Chunglin Kwa
René Rector; Part III Collaboration in the Molecular Life Sciences; Chapter 9 Matchmaking Mechanisms: Collaborative Arrangements in Proteomics and Bioinformatics
Jamie Lewis; Chapter 10 Systems Biology
Interdisciplinarity and Disciplinary Identity
Jane Calvert; Chapter 11 The Rice Sequence Collaborations: Globalisation
Innovation Networks and the Burgeoning Life Sciences in Asia
Lyndal Halliday; Part IV Collaboration in the New Life Sciences Revisited; Chapter 12 Collaborationism
Wesley Shrum;