What are the ethical and political implications when the very foundations of life -things of awe and spiritual significance - are translated into products accessible to few people? This book critically analyses this historic recontextualisation. Through mediation - when meaning moves from one text to another, from one discourse to another - biotechnology is transformed into analysable data and into public discourses.

The unique book links biotechnology with media and citizenship.

As with any commodity, biological products have been commodified. Because enormous speculative investment...

As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into focus once marginalised and neglected voices. Breaking new ground by reframing multimedia life stories as a resource for education, public health, and policy, this book challenges policymakers, professionals, and researchers to reimagine how they find out about and respond to people's daily lives and experiences of health, disability, and well-being.

The book develops theoretical, methodological, and practical resources for listening to...

This book explores the power music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and wellbeing.