Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 January 2015
- ISBN 9780199689583
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages346 pages
- Size 240x162x26 mm
- Weight 676 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book provides a compelling scholarly statement about the interrelation and pliability of values in the life sciences, medicine and health care. The volume aims to aid our understanding of the roles of power, knowledge production, and economic action in the heavily scientised and economised areas of life science and medicine.
MoreLong description:
Many deep concerns in the life sciences and medicine have to do with the enactment, ordering and displacement of a broad range of values. This volume articulates a pragmatist stance for the study of the making of values in society, exploring various sites within life sciences and medicine and asking how values are at play.
This means taking seriously the work scientists, regulators, analysts, professionals and publics regularly do, in order to define what counts as proper conduct in science and health care, what is economically valuable, and what is known and worth knowing.
A number of analytical and methodological means to investigate these concerns are presented. The editors introduce a way to indicate an empirically oriented research program into the enacting, ordering and displacing of values. They argue that a research programme of this kind, makes it possible to move orthogonally to the question of what values are, and thus ask how they are constituted. This rectifies some central problems that arise with approaches that depend on stabilized understandings of value. At the heart of it, such a research programme encourages the examination of how and with what means certain things come to count as valuable and desirable, how registers of value are ordered as well as displaced. It further encourages a sense that these matters could be, and sometimes simultaneously are, otherwise.
People's and societies' values arent fixed and innate. They are forged in practice,in every day settings, and often as the result of conflict. This important new book focusses on exactly how this happens.
Table of Contents:
On the Omnipresence, Diversity, and Elusiveness of Values in the Life Sciences and Medicine
Part I: Conflicted "Public" Values
Key Opinion Leaders: Valuing Independence and Conflict of Interest in the Medical Sciences
The Moral Economy of a Miracle Drug: On Exchange Relationships Between Medical Science and the Pharmaceutical Industry in the 1940s
The Third Manuscript: Rules of Conduct and the Fact-Value Distinction in Mid-20th Century Biochemistry
Part II: Markets as Carers for Health
A Moral Economy of Transplantation: Competing Regimes of Value in the Allocation of Transplant Organs
Critical Composition of Public Values: On the Enactment and Disarticulation of What Counts in Healthcare Markets
The Mosquito Multiple: Malaria and Market-Based Initiatives
Part III: Valuing Human and Non-Human Bodies
Genetic Value: The Moral Economies of Cloning in the Zoo
Enacting Values from the Sea: On Innovation Devices, Value Practices and the Co-Modifications of Markets and Bodies in Aquaculture
Norms, Values And Constraints: The Case of Prenatal Diagnosis
Part IV: Valuations and Knowledge
On Relational Work and Epistemic Value in the Biomedical Science
Data Transfer, Values and the Holding Together of Clinical Registry Networks
Valuation Machines: Economies of Desire/Pleasure in Contemporary Neuroscience
Valuography: Studying the Making of Values
