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Craft in Biomedical Research - The iPS Cell Technology and the Future of Stem Cell Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Craft in Biomedical Research - The iPS Cell Technology and the Future of Stem Cell Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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This book explores the new ways in which biology is becoming
technology. The revolutionary iPS cell technology has made it
possible to turn human skin and blood cells into pluripotent stem
cells, thus providing an unprecedented opportunity to study the
pathophysiology of diseases, understand human developmental
biology, and generate new therapies. Drawing from a rich
ethnographic study, Meskus traces the making of the iPS cell
technology through the perspectives of clinical translation,
laboratory experimentation, and tissue donation by voluntary
patients. Discussing non-human agency, the embodied and affective
basis of knowledge production, and the material politics of
science, the book develops the idea of an instrumentality-care
continuum as a fundamental dynamic of biomedical craft. This
continuum, Meskus argues, opens up a novel perspective to the
commercialization and industrial-scale appropriation of human
biology, and thereby to the future of ethical biomedical research.
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