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...
One Pipeline and Two Impact Assessments: Coproduction, Legal Pluralism, and the Trans Mountain Expansion Project [0.03%]
一条管道两条影响评估:特拉斯山地扩建工程中的共生产与法律多元主义
Ian G Stewart,Moira E Harding
Ian G Stewart
Canada's Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline project is one of the country's most controversial in recent history. At the heart of the controversy lie questions about how to conduct impact assessments (IAs) of oil spills in marine and coastal...
"Let's Not Have the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good": Social Impact Bonds, Randomized Controlled Trials, and the Valuation of Social Programs [0.03%]
“让我们不让完美成为好的敌人”:社会效益债券,随机控制实验和社会项目的估价
James W Williams
James W Williams
This article uses the case of "social impact bonds" (SIBs) to explore the role of social science methods in new markets in "social investment." Pioneered in the UK in 2010, SIBs use private capital to fund social programs with governments p...
Predicting Success in the Embryology Lab: The Use of Algorithmic Technologies in Knowledge Production [0.03%]
预测胚胎学实验室的成功:算法技术在知识生产中的应用
Alina Geampana,Manuela Perrotta
Alina Geampana
This article analyzes local algorithmic practices resulting from the increased use of time-lapse (TL) imaging in fertility treatment. The data produced by TL technologies are expected to help professionals pick the best embryo for implantat...