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FiltersAssemblages of cancer
Experiences and contexts of breast cancer in the UK, France and Italy
By Cinzia Greco
Assemblages of cancer illustrates the tensions in the experiences and context of breast cancer in Western Europe. Breast cancer is presented as a success story in oncology, especially in ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7144-3
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£25.00
Pre-OrderThe elephant and the dragon in contemporary life sciences
A call for decolonising global governance
By Joy Y. Zhang and Saheli Datta Burton
This book provides a powerful diagnosis of why the global governance of science struggles in the face of emerging powers. Through unpacking critical events in China and India over the past twenty ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-8228-9
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£25.00
Buy NowDog politics
Species stories and the animal sciences
By Mariam Motamedi Fraser
Do dogs belong with humans? Scientific accounts of dogs' 'species story,' in which contemporary dog-human relations are naturalised with reference to dogs' evolutionary becoming, suggest that ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7480-2
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£30.00
Buy NowResearching animal research
What the humanities and social sciences can contribute to laboratory animal science and welfare
Edited by Gail Davies, Beth Greenhough, Pru Hobson-West, Robert G. W. Kirk, Alexandra Palmer and Emma Roe
Every year around 80 million scientific procedures are carried out on animals globally. These experiments have the potential to generate new understandings of biology and clinical treatments. ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6575-6
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Hardcover
£30.00
Buy NowSugar rush
Science, politics and the demonisation of fatness
By Karen Throsby
In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5155-1
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£19.99
Buy NowTrust in the system
Research Ethics Committees and the regulation of biomedical research
By Adam Hedgecoe
Every month, groups of people from all over the United Kingdom decide what kind of research should be carried out on patients within the NHS. These groups - Research Ethics Committees (RECs) - ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6705-7
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£20.00
Buy NowEmbodiment and everyday cyborgs
Technologies that alter subjectivity
By Gill Haddow
Your organs are failing and require replacement. If you had the choice, would you prefer organs from other humans or non-human animals, or would you choose a 'cybernetic' medical implant?Using a ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1418-1
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£30.00
Buy NowPersonalised cancer medicine
Future crafting in the genomic era
By Anne Kerr, Choon Key Chekar, Emily Ross, Julia Swallow and Sarah Cunningham-Burley
What does it mean to personalise cancer medicine? Drawing on an ethnographic study with cancer patients, carers and practitioners in the UK, this book traces their efforts to access and interpret ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4102-6
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£30.00
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