| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 210 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Theory, technology and society |
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Theory, technology and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; 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. |
| Summary |
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. 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Social medicine.
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Medical sciences -- Social aspects.
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Life sciences -- Social aspects.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bauer, Susanne.
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Wahlberg, Ayo.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Contested categories. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009 9780754676188 (DLC) 2009022612 (OCoLC)391384187 |
| ISBN |
9780754698678 (electronic bk.) |
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075469867X (electronic bk.) |
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