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200 00$aContested categories$b[electronic resource] $elife sciences in society /$fedited by Susanne Bauer, Ayo Wahlberg
210   $aBurlington, VT ;$aSurrey, Eng. $cAshgate Pub.$dc2009
215   $a1 online resource (229 p.)
225 0 $aSeries--theory, technology, and society
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-7546-7618-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCover; 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
327   $a7 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
330   $aDrawing 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.
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