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Copyright © Bronwyn Parry, Beth Greenhough, 2018
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First published in 2018 by Polity Press
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-0549-4
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Parry, Bronwyn, author. | Greenhough, Beth, author.
Title: Bioinformation / Bronwyn Parry, Beth Greenhough.
Description: 1 | Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2017. | Series: Resources | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017014229 (print) | LCCN 2017031884 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509505487 (Mobi) | ISBN 9781509505494 (Epub) | ISBN 9781509505456 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509505463 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Bioinformatics. | Biology--Data processing. | BISAC: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs. Classification: LCC QH324.2 (ebook) | LCC QH324.2 .P38 2017 (print) | DDC 570.285--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017014229
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We would like to thank all those who have contributed to ongoing discussions over the years on the nature of bioinformation, its emerging markets and the social, ethical and legal implications of its use as a resource in contemporary society. These include: Barbara Prainsack, Catherine Waldby, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Nik Rose, Jenny Reardon, Gail Davies, Emma Roe, Catherine Nash, Klaus Hoeyer, Chris Philo, Sarah Whatmore, Mary Ebeling, Nick Bingham, Lochlann Jain, Steve Hinchliffe, Tim Brown and Jamie Lorimer. We have benefited tremendously from your insights, which have really helped to refine our thinking on this complex issue. Our wonderful editors at Polity, Louise Knight and Nekane Tanaka Galdos, have been so encouraging, supportive and patient, and we remain indebted to them for their creative commissioning of this work and careful stewardship to completion. Colleagues in our respective Departments of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London, and Geography and the Environment at Oxford have been equally generous in their support of this project. We are very grateful to Keble College, Oxford for providing a visiting fellowship for Bronwyn that first helped us get this project off the ground. Katya Baker provided invaluable research assistance throughout, for which we give our sincere thanks.
Lastly, Bronwyn would like to thank her family – Sally, Alex and Jacob – for their unending love and for ever so patiently providing the time and space needed to conceptualize, research and write this book. She would also like to thank Beth for being such a brilliant collaborator and Andy for helping her to find time away from her young family to work on this project. Beth would like to thank Karl Benediktsson from the University of Iceland and all those who supported, participated in and contributed to her early doctoral work on Iceland’s Health Sector Database. She would like to thank Bronwyn for inviting her to be involved in this project and putting up with her erratic contributions during maternity leave. Last, but by no means least, Beth is very grateful to Andy, Molly and Fergus for allowing her the time and space to realize this work.