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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. 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.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues Impact of science & technology on society

• Full title: Contested Categories
• Subtitle: Life Sciences in Society
• Author: Ayo Wahlberg
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 228
• EAN: 9780754676188
• ISBN: 0754676188
• ID: 04681736
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 453 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. October 2009

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