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Life Sciences in Society

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Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2009

228

Dura

Inglês

9780754676188

15 a 20 dias

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Contents: Preface; Foreword, GA-sli PA!lsson; Introduction: categories of life, Ayo Wahlberg and Susanne Bauer; Human and object, subject and thing: the troublesome nature of human biological material (HBM), Cecily Palmer; Substances of the body: blood, genes, and personhood, Malin Noem Ravn; Governing risk through informed choice: prenatal testing in welfarist maternity care, Mianna Meskus; Visualising and calculating life: matters of fact in the context of prenatal risk assessment, Nete Schwennesen and Lene Koch; Serious disease as kinds of living, Ayo Wahlberg; From society to molecule and back: the contested scale of public health science, Susanne Bauer; Life beyond information: contesting life and the body in history and molecular biology, Adam Bencard; The place and space of research work: studying control in a bioscience laboratory, Amrita Mishra; Almost human: scientific and popular strategies for making sense of 'missing links', Murray Goulden and Andrew S. Balmer; Index.
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