Synthetic biology in the German press: how implications of metaphors shape representations of morality and responsibility [0.03%]
德国媒体中的合成生物学：“隐喻的内涵”如何影响道德和责任的形象表示
Martin Döring
Martin Döring
Synthetic biology (SynBio) represents a relatively young field of research which has developed into an important scientific endeavour. Characterised by a high degree of interdisciplinary work crossing disciplinary boundaries, such as biolog...
Individuals on alert: digital epidemiology and the individualization of surveillance [0.03%]
个人警报：数字流行病学与监视的个体化
Silja Samerski
Silja Samerski
This article examines how digital epidemiology and eHealth coalesce into a powerful health surveillance system that fundamentally changes present notions of body and health. In the age of Big Data and Quantified Self, the conceptual and pra...
Joachim Boldt
Joachim Boldt
The extent to which machine metaphors are used in synthetic biology is striking. These metaphors contain a specific perspective on organisms as well as on scientific and technological progress. Expressions such as "genetically engineered ma...
The biogenetical revolution of the Council of Europe - twenty years of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (Oviedo Convention) [0.03%]
欧洲理事会的人权与生物医学公约之生物遗传革命-《奥维耶多公约》二十周年纪念
Oktawian Nawrot
Oktawian Nawrot
The Council of Europe's legal regulation concerning development of biology and medicine undoubtedly form the most interesting, but certainly not perfect, over-national system of protection of human beings in prenatal stages of development. ...
Scientific iconoclasm and active imagination: synthetic cells as techno-scientific mandalas [0.03%]
科学的破旧立新与积极想象：合成细胞作为技术-科学坛城图案
Hub Zwart
Hub Zwart
Metaphors allow us to come to terms with abstract and complex information, by comparing it to something which is structured, familiar and concrete. Although modern science is "iconoclastic", as Gaston Bachelard phrases it (i.e. bent on repl...
Brent Mittelstadt,Justus Benzler,Lukas Engelmann et al.
Brent Mittelstadt et al.
This paper poses the question of whether people have a duty to participate in digital epidemiology. While an implied duty to participate has been argued for in relation to biomedical research in general, digital epidemiology involves proces...
Genomics? That is probably GM! The impact a name can have on the interpretation of a technology [0.03%]
基因组学？那可能就是转基因了！一个名称对技术诠释影响的实例分析
Reginald Boersma,Bart Gremmen
Reginald Boersma
We investigate how people form attitudes and make decisions without having extensive knowledge about a technology. We argue that it is impossible for people to carefully study all technologies they encounter and that they are forced to use ...
Disease detection, epidemiology and outbreak response: the digital future of public health practice [0.03%]
疾病检测、流行病学和应对疫情：公共卫生实践的数字未来
Edward Velasco
Edward Velasco
Inequalities persist when it comes to the attention, resource allocation and political prioritization, and provision of appropriate, adequate, and timely health interventions to populations in need. Set against a complex socio-political bac...
Neil Stephens,Nik Brown,Conor Douglas
Neil Stephens
Patrick Seniuk
Patrick Seniuk
This paper argues that phenomenological insights regarding selfhood are relevant to the informed consent process in the treatment of depression using electro-convulsive therapy (ECT). One of the most significant side-effects associated with...