Contested Categories - Life Sciences in Society (Hardcover, New Ed)

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. In doing so, it shows how such categories remain contested and dynamic, and that the boundaries they create are subject to negotiation as well as re-configuration and re-stabilization processes. Organized around the themes of biological substances and objects, personhood and the genomic body and the creation and dispersion of knowledge, each of the volume's chapters reveals the elusive nature of fixity with regard to life science 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 sciences.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Theory, Technology and Society
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	2009
Editors:	Susanne Bauer • Ayo Wahlberg
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	228
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-7618-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > General
LSN:	0-7546-7618-8
Barcode:	9780754676188

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