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  title info:
    title: Synthetic Biology
    sub title: A Sociology of Changing Practices
  name:
    name part: Balmer, Andrew S.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Bulpin, Katie.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Molyneux-Hodgson, Susan.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 207 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book explores the emergence of a new scientific field, synthetic biology, and the many bold promises its proponents have made to change the future of science, industry, humanity and the global environment. It explores how people, including academics, students, industrialists and governance actors, tried to change their practices to bring engineering and biology together, and to realise such promises from within their everyday lives. It focuses on an ethnographic case study of an academic project that aimed to demonstrate the field's promise for solving water industry problems, from leaky pipes to climate change. In doing so, the book weaves together stories of barriers, bacteria and bodies, examining how they were entangled as people tried to make connections between academia and industry. It also reflects on the authors' attempts to work collaboratively with natural scientists and engineers, reflecting on current debates about the role of sociology in such interdisciplinary projects. The book contributes to contemporary studies of science and technology by highlighting issues such as ontology, practices, failure and time.
  note: by Andrew S. Balmer, Katie Bulpin, Susan Molyneux-Hodgson.
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Economic sociology
  subject:
    topic: Biomedicine
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, general
  subject:
    topic: Biotechnology
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology
  classification: R856-R857
  classification: 610.28
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781137495426
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137495426
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    record creation date: 160601
    record change date: 20160805192122.0
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