Anna Jabloner
Anna Jabloner
Molecular identification technologies are often framed in terms of their societal benefits. Forensic uses of DNA databases benefit society through the efficient identification of criminal suspects, while consumer DNA services empower indivi...
Gregory Hollin
Gregory Hollin
Autism is a highly uncertain entity and little is said about it with any degree of certainty. Scientists must, and do, work through these uncertainties in the course of their work. Scientists explain uncertainty in autism research through d...
Problematisations of Complexity: On the Notion and Production of Diverse Complexities in Healthcare Interventions and Evaluations [0.03%]
复杂性的问题化：论医疗卫生干预和评价中多样复杂性的概念与生成
Tineke Broer,Roland Bal,Martyn Pickersgill
Tineke Broer
Within the literature on the evaluation of health (policy) interventions, complexity is a much-debated issue. In particular, many claim that so-called 'complex interventions' pose different challenges to evaluation studies than apparently '...
Promise and Ontological Ambiguity in the In vitro Meat Imagescape: From Laboratory Myotubes to the Cultured Burger [0.03%]
从实验室肌肉纤维到培养肉饼：体外肉的希望与本体模糊性
Neil Stephens,Martin Ruivenkamp
Neil Stephens
In vitro meat (IVM), also known as cultured meat, involves growing cells into muscle tissue to be eaten as food. The technology had its most high-profile moment in 2013 when a cultured burger was cooked and tasted in a press conference. Ima...
Cyborgs in the Everyday: Masculinity and Biosensing Prostate Cancer [0.03%]
日常生活中的 cyborg：男子气概与前列腺癌生物传感检测
Gill Haddow,Emma King,Ian Kunkler et al.
Gill Haddow et al.
An in vivo biosensor is a technology in development that will assess the biological activity of cancers to individualise external beam radiotherapy. Inserting such technology into the human body creates cybernetic organisms; a cyborg that i...
Walking or Waiting? Topologies of the Breeding Ground in Malaria Control [0.03%]
行走还是等待？疟疾控制中的育源区域拓扑结构分析
Ann H Kelly,Javier Lezaun
Ann H Kelly
Few places bear as much historical and scientific significance as the breeding ground, the accumulation of stagnant water where disease-carrying insects lay their eggs. Since the turn of the twentieth century, when mosquitoes of the Anophel...
Alison Harvey,Brian Salter
Alison Harvey
The governance demands generated by the use of human/animal chimeras in scientific research offer both a challenge and an opportunity for the development of new forms of anticipatory governance through the novel application of bioethical ex...
Contested bodies: property models and the commodification of human biological artefacts [0.03%]
人体组织的商品化与财产模型之争
Bronwyn Parry,Cathy Gere
Bronwyn Parry
Tee Rogers-Hayden
Tee Rogers-Hayden