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Bioinformation worlds and futures / edited by E.J. Gonzalez-Polledo and Silvia Posocco

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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
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©2022
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1 online resource : illustrations
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Gonzalez-Polledo, E. J., 1980- and Posocco, Silvia
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Bioinformation worlds and futures : an introduction / EJ Gonzalez-Polledo and Silvia Posocco -- All the data creatures / Tahani Nadim -- Capturing genomes : the friction and flow of bioinformation at the Smithsonian / Adrian Van Allen -- The kinship of bioinformation : relations in an evolving archive / Resto Cruz, Penny Tinkler, and Laura Fenton -- Bioinformation in formation : inventing medical devices in contemporary India /Anisha Chadha -- Top_to_toe.ods : bioinformation and the politics of rape response / Sylvia McKelvie -- American bioinformation and U.S. Race politics : the values of diverse genetic data / Anna Jabloner -- Global e-waste epidemiology and emerging politics of bioinformatic extraction / Peter Little -- Seeing like an airport : towards interoperability in contemporary security / Mark Maguire and Eileen Murphy -- Surrender : (bio)information in the era of the pandemic in South Korea / Kiheung Kim and Jongmi Kim.
Summary
"This book sets out to define and consolidate the field of bioinformation studies in its transnational and global dimensions, drawing on debates in science and technology studies, anthropology and sociology. It provides situated analyses of bioinformation journeys across domains and spheres of interpretation. As unprecedented amounts of data relating to biological processes and lives are collected, aggregated, traded and exchanged, infrastructural systems and machine learners produce real consequences as they turn indeterminate data into actionable decisions for states, companies, scientific researchers and consumers. Bioinformation accrues multiple values as it transverses multiple registers and domains, and as it is transformed from bodies to becoming a subject of analysis tied to particular social relations, promises, desires and futures. The volume harnesses the anthropological sensibility for situated, fine-grained, ethnographically grounded analysis to develop an interdisciplinary dialogue on the conceptual, political, social and ethical dimensions posed by bioinformation"--
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9781000486209 electronic book
1000486206 electronic book
9780367810030 electronic book
0367810034 electronic book
9781000486223 electronic book
1000486222 electronic book
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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