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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. With contributions from an international team of scholars, this book will be essential reading for anyone inte...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Bauer, Susanne, Wahlberg, Ayo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
Series:Theory, technology and society.
Subjects:
Social medicine.
Medical sciences > Social aspects.
Life sciences > Social aspects.
Sciences de la santé > Aspect social.
Sciences de la vie > Aspect social.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
Life sciences > Social aspects
Social medicine
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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