The Diversification of Health: Politics of Large-Scale Cooperation in Nutrition Science

by Bart Penders

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837614800
Publication date:	09/05/2010
Series:	Science Studies
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Bart Penders (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher in Science & Technology Studies. He studies the normative effects of large-scale science and the co-evolution of facts, knowledge and norms.

Table of Contents

1
Contents 5
Preface 7
1. Making Knowledge and Norms in Large-Scale Science: the Case of Nutrigenomics 11
2. Navigating Large-Scale Research Practice 41
3. Making Large-Scale Nutrigenomics Work 63
4. Walking the Line between Lab and Computation in Nutrition Science 99
5. Personalised Nutrition: Is it Doable? 127
6. The Politics of Large-Scale Nutrition Science 149
References 169
About the author 189