Ayo Wahlberg

Contested Categories (eBook, ePUB)

Life Sciences in Society
Redaktion: Bauer, Susanne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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, technology and the life sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317160410
• Artikelnr.: 45096243

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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;