Examining a variety of bio-objects in contexts beyond the laboratory, Bio-Objects: Life in the 21st Century explores new ways of thinking about how novel bio-objects enter contemporary life, analysing the manner in which the boundaries between human and animal, organic and non-organic, and being 'alive' and the suspension of living, are questioned, destabilised and in some cases re-established.

Chapter 1 IntroductionBio-Objects: Exploring the Boundaries of Life, Andrew Webster; Part 1 Changing Boundaries of Human, Nonhuman and Society; Chapter 1a Challenging Bio-objectification: Adding Noise to Transgenic Silences, Tora Holmberg, Malin Ideland; Chapter 2 Pluripotent Promises: Configurations of a Bio-object, Lena Eriksson; Chapter 3 Water '" An Exploration of the Boundaries of Bio-objects, Ragna Zeiss; Chapter 4 Bio-objectification of Clinical Research Patients: Impacts on the Stabilization of New Medical Technologies, Conor M.W. Douglas; Part 2 Governing Bio-Objects; Chapter 5 Beasting Biology: Interspecies Politics, Nik Brown; Chapter 6 Comparing Public Engagement with Bio-objects: Implementing Co-existence Regimes for GM Crops in Denmark, the UK and Germany, Janus Hansen; Chapter 7 Governing Hereditary Disease in the Age of Autonomy: Mutations, Families and Care, Aaro Tupasela; Chapter 8 At the Margins of Life: Making Fetal Life Matter in Trajectories of First Trimester Prenatal Risk Assessment (FTPRA), Nete Schwennesen; Part 3 Generative Relations; Chapter 9 The Fruit of Love: The German IVF-embryo Turning from Abject into Bio-object, Bettina Bock von Wÿlfingen; Chapter 10 On Why States Still Matter: In vitro Fertilization Embryos between Laboratories and State Authorities in Italy, Ingrid Metzler; Chapter 11 Growing a Cell in Silico: On How the Creation of a Bio-object Transforms the Organisation of Science, Niki Vermeulen; Chapter 12 Genetic Discrimination 2.0: The Un/Differentiating Gene in Insurance, Ine Van Hoyweghen; Chapter 13 Still Life? Frozen Gametes, National Gene Banks and Re-configuration of Animality, Sakari Tamminen;