TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bauer,Susanne
AU  - Wahlberg,Ayo
TI  - Contested categories: life sciences in society 
T2  - Theory, technology and society
SN  - 9780754698678
AV  - RA418 .C6725 2009eb
U1  - 362.1 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Farnham, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Medical sciences
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Life sciences
KW  - Sciences de la santé
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Sciences de la vie
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Health Care Issues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - Diseases
KW  - General
KW  - Health Care Delivery
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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