Craft in Biomedical Research The iPS Cell Technology and the Future of Stem Cell Science /

• Main Author: Meskus, Mianna (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Technology-Sociological aspects.; Social medicine.; Medical ethics.; Science and Technology Studies.; Medical Sociology.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

This book explores the new ways in which biology is becoming technology. The revolutionary iPS cell technology has made it possible to turn human skin and blood cells into pluripotent stem cells, thus providing an unprecedented opportunity to study the pathophysiology of diseases, understand human d...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Human Cells to the Market
• 3. Between Craft and Standardized Production
• 4. Making iPS Cells in the Laboratory
• 5. Instrumentality and Care in Experimental Research
• 6. Patients and the Material Origins of Knowledge
• 7. Scientific Craftwork in the Age of Bioindustrialization. .