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 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 sciences.
| ISBN: | 9781138276901 |
| Publication date: | 16th November 2016 |
| Author: | Ayo Wahlberg |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 228 pages |
| Series: | Theory, Technology and Society |
| Genres: |
Sociology Medical and healthcare law Social and political philosophy Cultural studies |
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 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 sciences.
Contested Categories features in the following genres: Sociology, Medical and healthcare law, Social and political philosophy, Cultural studies
Contested Categories is available in Paperback, Ebook, Hardback
Contested Categories was written by Ayo Wahlberg and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Contested Categories has 228 pages
Yes it is part of Theory, Technology and Society series
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