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, among others, 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 changing boundaries; the governance and regulation of bio-objects; and changing social, economic and political relations, 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.
Niki Vermeulen is Lecturer in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK,
Sakari Tamminen is an Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Andrew Webster is Professor of the Sociology of Science & Technology and Director of the Science and Technology Studies Unit at the University of York, UK
Andrew Webster, Tora Holmberg, Malin Ideland, Lena Eriksson, Ragna Zeiss, Conor M.W. Douglas, Nik Brown, Janus Hansen, Aaro Tupasela, Nete Schwennesen, Bettina Bock von Wülfingen, Ingrid Metzler, Niki Vermeulen, Ine Van Hoyweghen, Sakari Tamminen.