03399nam 2200721Ia 450 991082827730332120231206221901.01-315-57397-01-317-16041-X1-282-34427-797866123442750-7546-9867-X(CKB)1000000000807334(EBL)476323(OCoLC)498499710(SSID)ssj0000292652(PQKBManifestationID)12069189(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292652(PQKBWorkID)10269243(PQKB)10537851(Au-PeEL)EBL476323(CaPaEBR)ebr10343278(CaONFJC)MIL922580(Au-PeEL)EBL5293343(CaONFJC)MIL234427(OCoLC)1027172443(MiAaPQ)EBC476323(MiAaPQ)EBC5293343(EXLCZ)99100000000080733420090608d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContested categories[electronic resource] life sciences in society /edited by Susanne Bauer, Ayo WahlbergBurlington, VT ;Surrey, Eng. Ashgate Pub.c20091 online resource (229 p.)Series--theory, technology, and societyDescription based upon print version of record.0-7546-7618-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Science7 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'; IndexDrawing 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 and technology and the life.Theory, Technology and SocietySocial medicineMedical sciencesSocial aspectsLife sciencesSocial aspectsSocial medicine.Medical sciencesSocial aspects.Life sciencesSocial aspects.362.142.66bclWahlberg Ayo1597113Bauer Susanne900937MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828277303321Contested categories3918753UNINA