The Diversification of Health : : Politics of Large-Scale Cooperation in Nutrition Science / / Bart Penders.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Penders, Bart,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Science Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. Making Knowledge and Norms in Large-Scale Science: the Case of Nutrigenomics --; 2. Navigating Large-Scale Research Practice --; 3. Making Large-Scale Nutrigenomics Work --; 4. Walking the Line between Lab and Computation in Nutrition Science --; 5. Personalised Nutrition: Is it Doable? --; 6. The Politics of Large-Scale Nutrition Science --; References --; About the author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839414804; 9783111025230; 9783110661552; 9783110352856; 9783110370713
• DOI: 10.1515/transcript.9783839414804?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bart Penders.

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.