Bio-Objects

Life in the 21st Century

By: Niki Vermeulen (Editor), Sakari Tamminen (Editor), Andrew Webster (Editor)

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Hardcover | 28 December 2011 | Edition Number 1

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242 Pages

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23.39 x 15.6 x 1.42

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Increasing knowledge of the biological and the emergence of 'bio-objects', the categories, materialities and processes that are central to the configuring of 'life', are fundamentally transforming what life itself means and where its boundaries lie. New developments in the biosciences - especially through the molecularisation of life - are shaping healthcare and other aspects of our society, and the new bio-objects that enable this are traced in this cutting edge volume, as they emerge, stabilize and circulate through society.Examining a variety of bio-objects in contexts beyond the laboratory, Bio-Objects: Life in the 21st Century explores new ways of thinking about how novel bio-objects enter contemporary life, analysing the manner in which the boundaries between human and animal, organic and non-organic, and being 'alive' and the suspension of living, are questioned, destabilised and in some cases re-established.Thematically organised around questions of the changing boundaries between the human, non-human and society; the governance of new bio-objects and the social regulations involved in the boundary shifts that they bring about; and the social, economic and political relations that these changes occasion, this book presents rich new case studies from Europe that will be of interest to scholars of science and technology studies, social theory, sociology and law.

Industry Reviews

Prize: Awarded the Olga Amsterdamska Award, 2012, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. The Amsterdamska award is made for the most creative collaboration in an edited book in the broad field of science and technology studies. 'Firmly anchored in the field of science and technology studies, this collection invites us to follow bio-objects through the way they challenge the boundaries of the living and their associated social, legal and ethical issues.' Bioethique Online 'In 1923, the artist Man Ray created Object to be Destroyed, a provocation against "art" that, ironically, he never destroyed. When, in 1957, Parisian students at a Dada exhibition destroyed the piece, Ray used the insurance to make multiple copies. Compare the bio-objects inventively theorized in this book: icons of the instability of "life" but also symbols of its enduring multiplicity.' Stefan Helmreich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 'This engaging and wide-ranging book introducing the concept of "bio-objects" makes a substantial contribution to the social study of bioscience and biomedicine through a series of empirically rich case studies in which this term is put to productive use. Bio-Objects convincingly adds an important new term to the study of how life is being remade through technology.' Sarah Franklin, University of Cambridge, UK

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