Translating Law and Code in Government: Algorithmic Decisions and Their Legal Effects in Canada [0.03%]
加拿大的算法决策及其法律影响：政府中的法律与代码翻译问题
Mike Zajko
Mike Zajko
This article analyzes the translation of law into computer code and the use of automated decision-making systems in government to make legal distinctions. Specifically, how are algorithmic decisions tied to law, and what happens when legal ...
What's in the Blood? Temporalities at Play in Diet-Related Risk Management Testing Practices [0.03%]
管中窥豹：饮食相关风险管控中的试验实践及其时间性问题探究
Myriam Durocher
Myriam Durocher
In this paper, I look at two different sets of practices that are part of the risk management apparatus in place in Québec & Canada to apprehend and control risks associated with food consumption. More specifically, I contrast diabetes and...
Covalence in Cow-veillance: Sensing Technologies and Human-Animal Affinities in Dairying [0.03%]
共价牧监：乳畜业中感测技术与人类动物亲缘性关系之建构
Camille Bellet,Emily Kathryn Morgan
Camille Bellet
This article considers how the widespread use of camera surveillance systems in dairy farming affects engagements between farmers and cows. While literatures on visual surveillance often cast monitoring technologies as cold and mechanical t...
Carrie Friese
Carrie Friese
The clinician-scientist is often viewed as the crucial nexus in the translational processes that turn scientific research into medical technologies, including but not limited to pharmaceuticals. To create a point of contrast, and to conside...
Habilitation beyond the Bionic Metaphor: Producing Deafnesses of the Future [0.03%]
超越仿生隐喻的资格授予：未来聋人群体的塑造
Stephanie Lloyd,Chani Bonventre
Stephanie Lloyd
In this article, we travel back to the early days of experimental use of cochlear implants (CIs) in the 1970s, when unsettled expectations of the device and broad investigations of its effects began to settle and center on speech outcomes. ...
Laboratory Practices, Potentiality, and Material Patienthood in Genomic Cancer Medicine [0.03%]
基因组癌症医学中的实验室实践、潜在性和物质患者身份
Julia Swallow,Tineke Broer,Anne Kerr et al.
Julia Swallow et al.
Laboratory practitioners working in oncology are increasingly involved in implementing genomic medicine, operating at the intersection of the laboratory and the clinic. This includes molecular diagnostic work and molecular testing to direct...
Scholarly Publishing, Boundary Processes, and the Problem of Fake Peer Reviews [0.03%]
学术出版、边界过程与虚假同行评议问题
Kirsten Bell,Patricia Kingori,David Mills
Kirsten Bell
Over the past decade, the phenomenon of "fake" peer reviews has caused growing consternation among scholarly publishers. Yet despite the significant behind-the-scenes impact that anxieties about fakery have had on peer review processes with...
Innovation in Technology Instead of Thinking? Assetization and Its Epistemic Consequences in Academia [0.03%]
技术创新而非思考？学术界的资产化及其认识论后果
Ruth Falkenberg,Maximilian Fochler
Ruth Falkenberg
This paper draws on the notion of the asset to better understand the role of innovative research technologies in researchers' practices and decisions. Faced with both the need to accumulate academic capital to make a living in academia and ...
The Cold Futures of Mouse Genetics: Modes of Strain Cryopreservation Since the 1970s [0.03%]
冷未来：20世纪70年代以来的小鼠遗传学 cryo-保存模式
Dmitriy Myelnikov,Sara Peres
Dmitriy Myelnikov
Cryopreservation, or the freezing of embryos or sperm, has become a routine part of many research projects involving laboratory mice. In this article, we combine historical and sociological methods to produce a cryopolitical analysis of thi...
Co-producing Human and Animal Experimental Subjects: Exploring the Views of UK COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participants on Animal Testing [0.03%]
人与动物实验对象的共生产：探索英国COVID-19疫苗 trial参与者对动物试验的看法
Samantha Vanderslott,Alexandra Palmer,Tonia Thomas et al.
Samantha Vanderslott et al.
Preclinical (animal) testing and human testing of drugs and vaccines are rarely considered by social scientists side by side. Where this is done, it is typically for theoretically exploring the ethics of the two situations to compare relati...