Life According to ZOE: The Promises and Limits of Studying More-Than-Human Uniqueness (chapter published in English language version of the book Multilogues on the Now 4: O žlázách, membránách a dutinách)

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Stöckelová, Tereza
Life According to ZOE: The Promises and Limits of Studying More-Than-Human Uniqueness (chapter published in English language version of the book Multilogues on the Now 4: O žlázách, membránách a dutinách).
2021
Grant CEP: GA ČR GA20-09830S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378025
Klíčová slova: microbiome * ZOE * precision nutrition
Obor OECD: Sociology

The chapter sociologically examines the case of the an initiative for scientific and also commercial purposes run by the company ZOE, which represents a global avant-garde of medicinal microbial research focused on personalized medicine and nutrition. Its interest lies not just in its innovative methodology – a combination of first-rate “basic” research and a commercial service for clients that rely on one another as strategies for learning and acquiring data – or in how it publicly presents itself and its results, but also in the fact that it explicitly professes the values of health equity. Thus, in the broad sense of the word – unlike many other ostensibly depoliticized research projects – it also puts forth certain sociopolitical goals.
The chapter is published in the English language version of the book Multilogues on the Now 4: O žlázách, membránách a dutinách.
In: JANEČKOVÁ, H., JAKALOVÁ, Z., eds. Multilogues on the Now 4: On Glands, Membranes and Cavities. Praha: Display – Sdružení pro výzkum a kolektivní praxi, 2021, s. 16-35. ISBN 978-80-907873-4-3.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0326870