The Diversification of Health
Politics of Large-Scale Cooperation in Nutrition Science
Complex problems and ambitious goals are often thought to become easier by enlarging and diversifying the group of experts dealing with them. As a result, these complex entities are fragmented into smaller ones that can be dealt with by single laboratories. Bart Penders ventured into nutrition science to observe and join teams of scientists to find out what happens to these problems and goals. He attended conferences and workshops and worked in their laboratories. He shows that scientists mobilise everything in their power to solve problems: they reconstruct elements of the problem, such as our health. In the process, the search for health has led to its diversification.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Preface
Seiten 7 - 10 -
1. Making Knowledge and Norms in Large-Scale Science: the Case of Nutrigenomics
Seiten 11 - 40 -
2. Navigating Large-Scale Research Practice
Seiten 41 - 62 -
3. Making Large-Scale Nutrigenomics Work
Seiten 63 - 98 -
4. Walking the Line between Lab and Computation in Nutrition Science
Seiten 99 - 126 -
5. Personalised Nutrition: Is it Doable?
Seiten 127 - 148 -
6. The Politics of Large-Scale Nutrition Science
Seiten 149 - 168 -
References
Seiten 169 - 188 -
About the author
Seiten 189 - 190
2 August 2010, 190 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-1480-0
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