Contested categories: life sciences in society

by Bauer, Susanne Wahlberg, Ayo

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Title Statements

Full title :Contested categories : life sciences in society / edited by Susanne Bauer, Ayo Wahlberg.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ashgate
Place of Publication:Farnham, England
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009.

The Physical Object

Description:xviii, 210 p. : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780754676188, 0754676188, 9780754698678, 075469867X
oclc:ocn938953873
LC Classification:RA418
Dewey Decimal:362.1

Human and object, subject and thing: The troublesome nature of human biological material HBM) -- Substances of the body: Blood, genes, and personhood -- Governing risk through informed choice: Prenatal testing in welfarist maternity care -- Visualizing and calculating life: Matters of fact in the context of prenatal risk assessment -- Serious disease as kinds of living -- From society to molecule and back: Thee contested scale of public health science -- Life beyond information -- Contesting life and the body in history and molecular biology -- The place and space of research work: Studying control in a bioscience laboratory -- Almost human: Scientific and popular strategies for making sense of 'missing links'

Subjects

Bioethical Issues Bioethics Bioéthique Biovetenskaper -- sociala aspekter Genetic Engineering -- ethics Médecine -- Philosophie Medicine -- Philosophy Personhood Philosophy, Medical Socialmedicin