Amade M'Charek

Gebundenes Buch

The Human Genome Diversity Project

Beschreibung

The Human Genome Diversity Project was an important controversial research program arising from the debates surrounding the mapping of the human genome. This book, based on a detailed ethnographic study of two laboratories involved in the project, explores issues concerning standardization, naturalization and diversity generated in day-to-day work by scientists and technicians.

Autor

Amade M'charek is Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology and the Department of Poltical Science, University of Amsterdam and is Lecturer in Science, Technology and Public Management.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780521832229
• ISBN-10: 0521832225
• Artikelnr.: 22099337

Rezensionen

'M'Charek offers the reader a fascinating first-hand account of science-in-practice at two of the laboratories involved in the Human Genome Diversity Project, but this is more than just another instalment in the now well-established tradition of ethnography in/of the laboratory. ... engagingly written ...'. Environment and Planning A