This book sets out to define and consolidate the field of bioinformation studies in its transnational and global dimensions, drawing on debates in science and technology studies, anthropology and sociology. It provides situated analyses of bioinformation journeys across domains and spheres of interpretation. As unprecedented amounts of data relating to biological processes and lives are collected, aggregated, traded and exchanged, infrastructural systems and machine learners produce real consequences as they turn indeterminate data into actionable decisions for states, companies, scientific researchers and consumers. Bioinformation accrues multiple values as it transverses multiple registers and domains, and as it is transformed from bodies to becoming a subject of analysis tied to particular social relations, promises, desires and futures. The volume harnesses the anthropological sensibility for situated, fine-grained, ethnographically grounded analysis to develop an interdisciplinary dialogue on the conceptual, political, social and ethical dimensions posed by bioinformation.
| ISBN: | 9781032140827 |
| Publication date: | 25th September 2023 |
| Author: | E J GonzalezPolledo, Silvia Posocco |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 196 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Anthropology |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology Social theory Anthropology Medical sociology Human biology Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects Computer science |
This book sets out to define and consolidate the field of bioinformation studies in its transnational and global dimensions, drawing on debates in science and technology studies, anthropology and sociology. It provides situated analyses of bioinformation journeys across domains and spheres of interpretation. As unprecedented amounts of data relating to biological processes and lives are collected, aggregated, traded and exchanged, infrastructural systems and machine learners produce real consequences as they turn indeterminate data into actionable decisions for states, companies, scientific researchers and consumers. Bioinformation accrues multiple values as it transverses multiple registers and domains, and as it is transformed from bodies to becoming a subject of analysis tied to particular social relations, promises, desires and futures. The volume harnesses the anthropological sensibility for situated, fine-grained, ethnographically grounded analysis to develop an interdisciplinary dialogue on the conceptual, political, social and ethical dimensions posed by bioinformation.
Bioinformation Worlds and Futures features in the following genres: Social and cultural anthropology, Social theory, Anthropology, Medical sociology, Human biology, Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects, Computer science
Bioinformation Worlds and Futures is available in Paperback, Hardback
Bioinformation Worlds and Futures was written by E J GonzalezPolledo, Silvia Posocco and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Bioinformation Worlds and Futures has 196 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Studies in Anthropology series
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