Making Death Matter : A Feminist Technoscience Study of Alzheimer's Sciences in the Laboratory.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Linköping :
Linkopings Universitet,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Alzheimer's disease and feminist studies
- Aim of the study
- Alzheimer's disease and life science:A science in the making
- Why laboratory study?
- Chapter summaries
- Mapping the Fields, Theories and Conceptual Building Blocks
- Mapping the fields
- Gender studies
- Feminist science studies (FSS)
- Science, technology and society (STS)
- Human-animal studies (HAS)
- On posthumanities
- New materialism as the theoretical approach
- Agential realism
- Posthumanist performativity
- Mapping the theoretical concepts
- Theorizing the molecularization of AD, performing death
- On theorizing killability
- On theorizing waste and the problem of categorization
- Conclusion
- Methodology
- Making of the field
- Meeting my gatekeeper
- Participant observation as a method
- Feminist laboratory ethnography:Embodied subjectivity as the only way to be objective
- Situated knowledge and objectivity
- Becoming a participant observer:On embodiment and research
- Entering the lab
- Learning the language: On becoming liminal
- On becoming fly-sensitive
- Disgust and ethics
- Other laboratories
- Interviews
- Writing and thick description
- Conclusion
- Molecularizing Alzheimer's Disease, Performing Death
- Alzheimer's disease molecularized:On partial enactments and the laboratory
- Visualizing the molecular component:Animating life through death
- Making Alzheimer's disease:animating theories about neural death
- Making Alzheimer's disease:On imaging and intra-animacy
- Conclusion
- Spectrum of Killability
- Messengers of death: From culture to medicine
- Flies and otherworldly relations
- On killability
- Fly and laboratory
- Biology and material-discursive cuts:On becoming a test object
- Brain: On the (im)possibility of becoming a test object.
- Mouse model
- Fly model
- Cell model
- Spectrum of killability: Order and fluidity
- Conclusion
- Waste liveliness in the lab
- Waste, ambiguity and in/determinacy
- Waste as a technoscientific legacy
- Sorting waste out
- On danger and hazardousness
- On materiality and hazardousness
- Flies as waste: On relationality, in/determinacyand the agentiality of waste in the lab
- Knowing waste: Becoming biological waste asmatters of practice
- Flies as ambiguous: The in/determinacy ofwaste in the labs
- Waste in/determinacy, life and death andbecoming waste in relation
- Conclusion
- Prelude
- Conclusion
- Making death matter: On animating death
- Making death matter: On killabililty
- Making death matter: On handing biological waste
- Making death matter
- Theoretical Contributions
- On imaging practices and death itself
- On killability, response-ability and ethics
- On practice and the politics of categorization
- Pondering care: Suggestions for further research
- References.