Making Death Matter : A Feminist Technoscience Study of Alzheimer's Sciences in the Laboratory.

Intro -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Alzheimer's disease and feminist studies -- Aim of the study -- Alzheimer's disease and life science:A science in the making -- Why laboratory study? -- Chapter summaries -- Mapping the Fields, Theories and Conceptual Building Blocks -- Mapping the fields -- Gender studies -- Feminist science studies (FSS) -- Science, technology and society (STS) -- Human-animal studies (HAS) -- On posthumanities -- New materialism as the theoretical approach -- Agential realism -- Posthumanist performativity -- Mapping the theoretical concepts -- Theorizing the molecularization of AD, performing death -- On theorizing killability -- On theorizing waste and the problem of categorization -- Conclusion -- Methodology -- Making of the field -- Meeting my gatekeeper -- Participant observation as a method -- Feminist laboratory ethnography:Embodied subjectivity as the only way to be objective -- Situated knowledge and objectivity -- Becoming a participant observer:On embodiment and research -- Entering the lab -- Learning the language: On becoming liminal -- On becoming fly-sensitive -- Disgust and ethics -- Other laboratories -- Interviews -- Writing and thick description -- Conclusion -- Molecularizing Alzheimer's Disease, Performing Death -- Alzheimer's disease molecularized:On partial enactments and the laboratory -- Visualizing the molecular component:Animating life through death -- Making Alzheimer's disease:animating theories about neural death -- Making Alzheimer's disease:On imaging and intra-animacy -- Conclusion -- Spectrum of Killability -- Messengers of death: From culture to medicine -- Flies and otherworldly relations -- On killability -- Fly and laboratory -- Biology and material-discursive cuts:On becoming a test object -- Brain: On the (im)possibility of becoming a test object.

Mouse model -- Fly model -- Cell model -- Spectrum of killability: Order and fluidity -- Conclusion -- Waste liveliness in the lab -- Waste, ambiguity and in/determinacy -- Waste as a technoscientific legacy -- Sorting waste out -- On danger and hazardousness -- On materiality and hazardousness -- Flies as waste: On relationality, in/determinacyand the agentiality of waste in the lab -- Knowing waste: Becoming biological waste asmatters of practice -- Flies as ambiguous: The in/determinacy ofwaste in the labs -- Waste in/determinacy, life and death andbecoming waste in relation -- Conclusion -- Prelude -- Conclusion -- Making death matter: On animating death -- Making death matter: On killabililty -- Making death matter: On handing biological waste -- Making death matter -- Theoretical Contributions -- On imaging practices and death itself -- On killability, response-ability and ethics -- On practice and the politics of categorization -- Pondering care: Suggestions for further research -- References.

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