Exploring the post-genomic world: differing explanatory and manipulatory functions of post-genomic sciences [0.03%]
探究后基因组世界：后基因组科学的不同解释和操作功能
Christina Holmes,Siobhan M Carlson,Fiona McDonald et al.
Christina Holmes et al.
Richard Lewontin proposed that the ability of a scientific field to create a narrative for public understanding garners it social relevance. This article applies Lewontin's conceptual framework of the functions of science (manipulatory and ...
Closure of a human tissue biobank: individual, institutional, and field expectations during cycles of promise and disappointment [0.03%]
人体组织生物库的关闭：在充满希望与失望周期中的个体、机构和领域的期望
Neil Stephens,Rebecca Dimond
Neil Stephens
Biobanks are increasingly being established to act as mediators between patient-donors and researchers. In practice, some of these will close. This paper details the experiences of one such bank. We report interviews with the bank's staff a...
Miranda R Waggoner,Tobias Uller
Miranda R Waggoner
The epigenetic "revolution" in science cuts across many disciplines, and it is now one of the fastest growing research areas in biology. Increasingly, claims are made that epigenetics research represents a move away from the genetic determi...
Martine Lappé,Hannah Landecker
Martine Lappé
In the space of little more than a decade, ideas of the human genome have shifted significantly, with the emergence of the notion that the genome an individual changes with development, age, disease, environmental inputs, and time. This pap...
Aleksandra Stelmach,Brigitte Nerlich
Aleksandra Stelmach
Carrying out research in genetics and genomics and communicating about them would not be possible without metaphors such as "information," "code," "letter" or "book." Genetic and genomic metaphors have remained relatively stable for a long ...
Maria Fannin,Julie Kent
Maria Fannin
Twenty-three years ago when women and their children were recruited to a longitudinal genetic epidemiological study during pregnancy, placentas were collected at birth. This paper explores the history of a regional placenta biobank and cont...
David B Resnik
David B Resnik
Advances in genetic medicine may have implications for how we should think about personal responsibility for health, because they may show how it is possible to exert some control over risk factors that were previously thought as beyond the...
Smoking at the workplace: Effects of genetic and environmental causal accounts on attitudes towards smoking employees and restrictive policies [0.03%]
工作场所吸烟：遗传和环境因果关系对员工态度及限制性政策的影响
Ilan Dar-Nimrod,Miron Zuckerman,Paul Duberstein
Ilan Dar-Nimrod
People hold diverse beliefs regarding the etiologies of individual and group differences in behaviors which, in turn, might affect their attitudes and behaviors. It is important to establish how perceived etiologies for smoking might affect...
Emilie Cloatre,Martyn Pickersgill
Emilie Cloatre
Recent social science scholarship has employed the term "pharmaceuticalization" in analyses of the production, circulation and use of drugs. In this paper, we seek to open up further discussion of the scope, limits and potential of this as ...
Governing stem cell therapy in India: regulatory vacuum or jurisdictional ambiguity? [0.03%]
印度的干细胞治疗监管：真空状态还是管辖权模糊？
Shashank S Tiwari,Sujatha Raman
Shashank S Tiwari
Stem cell treatments are being offered in Indian clinics although preclinical evidence of their efficacy and safety is lacking. This is attributed to a governance vacuum created by the lack of legally binding research guidelines. By contras...