Ayo (Hrsg.) Wahlberg

Contested Categories

Life Sciences in Society

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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. 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 contribu… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Bauer, Susanne (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-317-16042-7
EAN: 9781317160427
Produktnummer: 20177077
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 228 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'687 KB

Über den Autor

Susanne Bauer is postdoctoral researcher at Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Ayo Wahlberg, until recently at the London School of Economics, UK, is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.