Bio-Objects Life in the 21st Century

Prize: Awarded the Olga Amsterdamska Award, 2012, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. The Amsterdamska award is made for the most creative collaboration in an edited book in the broad field of science and technology studies. 'Firmly anchored in the field of science and technology studies, this collection invites us to follow bio-objects through the way they challenge the boundaries of the living and their associated social, legal and ethical issues.' Bioethique Online 'In 1923, the artist Man Ray created Object to be Destroyed, a provocation against "art" that, ironically, he never destroyed. When, in 1957, Parisian students at a Dada exhibition destroyed the piece, Ray used the insurance to make multiple copies. Compare the bio-objects inventively theorized in this book: icons of the instability of "life" but also symbols of its enduring multiplicity.' Stefan Helmreich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 'This engaging and wide-ranging book introducing the concept of "bio-objects" makes a substantial contribution to the social study of bioscience and biomedicine through a series of empirically rich case studies in which this term is put to productive use. Bio-Objects convincingly adds an important new term to the study of how life is being remade through technology.' Sarah Franklin, University of Cambridge, UK