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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]
©2010
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:Science Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (190 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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