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Zusatztext The era of small government and big economy is a testing time for STS. Do we live in post-critical times? Maybe. Irrespective of our disagreements over the fate of skepticism, we need to grind new analytic lenses. This book, which helps us see that epistemic practices are a species of valuation practices, refracts valuing in new ways. Informationen zum Autor Isabelle Dussauge is a researcher at the Center for Gender Research at the University of Uppsala. Her primary research interests are in the science and politics of the body, at the intersection of science and technology studies, gender studies, and the history of medicine. She has worked with visualization in medicine; the early computerization of health care; and the place of the brain in contemporary culture. She is currently concluding the research project entitled "Brain Desires ", a critical inquiry into the contemporary neurosciences of sexuality and pleasure. Claes-Fredrik Helgesson is professor in Technology and Social Change at Linkoping University, Sweden. His research interest concerns the intertwining of economic organising, science and technology. The theoretical inspiration comes primarily from economic sociology and social studies of science and technology (STS). His current project "Trials of Value " together with Francis Lee, investigates the designing of controlled medical experiments as a site where scientific, medical and economic values at play when establishing what knowledge is worth pursuing. Helgesson is co-founder and co-editor of Valuation Studies, a new open access journal, which published its first issue in spring 2013. Francis Lee is assistant professor at the Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change at Linko?ping University, Sweden. His primary research interests are in the practices, politics and technologies of knowledge. His work has dealt with the valuation of knowledge in the biosciences, epistemic standards in education, and exclusion in sociotechnical processes. He is currently studying research design as a valuation of biomedical knowledge in the project "Trials of Value" with C-F Helgesson. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Isabelle Dussauge, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Francis Lee, and Steve Woolgar: On the Omnipresence, Diversity, and Elusiveness of Values in the Life Sciences and Medicine Part I: Conflicted "Public" Values 2: Sergio Sismondo: Key Opinion Leaders: Valuing Independence and Conflict of Interest in the Medical Sciences 3: Christer Nordlund: The Moral Economy of a Miracle Drug: On Exchange Relationships Between Medical Science and the Pharmaceutical Industry in the 1940s 4: Sven Widmalm: The Third Manuscript: Rules of Conduct and the Fact-Value Distinction in Mid-20th Century Biochemistry Part II: Markets as Carers for Health 5: Philip Roscoe: A Moral Economy of Transplantation: Competing Regimes of Value in the Allocation of Transplant Organs 6: Teun Zuiderent-Jerak, Kor Grit and Tom van der Grinten: Critical Composition of Public Values: On the Enactment and Disarticulation of What Counts in Healthcare Markets 7: Daniel Neyland and Elena Simakova: The Mosquito Multiple: Malaria and Market-Based Initiatives Part III: Valuing Human an...
