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UNINA9910455445903321 |
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Titolo |
Contested categories [[electronic resource] ] : life sciences in society / / edited by Susanne Bauer, Ayo Wahlberg |
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Burlington, VT ; ; Surrey, Eng., : Ashgate Pub., c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-317-16041-X |
1-282-34427-7 |
9786612344275 |
0-7546-9867-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (229 p.) |
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Collana |
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Series--theory, technology, and society |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social medicine |
Medical sciences - Social aspects |
Life sciences - Social aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 Biology8 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. With contributions from |
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