@article{839462,
      author = {Meskus, Mianna,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/839462},
      title = {Craft in biomedical research : the iPS cell technology and  the future of stem cell science /},
      abstract = {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 developmental biology, and  generate new therapies. Drawing from a rich ethnographic  study, Meskus traces the making of the iPS cell technology  through the perspectives of clinical translation,  laboratory experimentation, and tissue donation by  voluntary patients. Discussing non-human agency, the  embodied and affective basis of knowledge production, and  the material politics of science, the book develops the  idea of an instrumentality-care continuum as a fundamental  dynamic of biomedical craft. This continuum, Meskus argues,  opens up a novel perspective to the commercialization and  industrial-scale appropriation of human biology, and  thereby to the future of ethical biomedical research. .},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46910-6},
      recid = {839462},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
}