Sociology, Philosophy & Anthropology
Recent Submissions
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Antigone’s forensic DNA database: Forensic technologies and the search for the disappeared in Mexico
(Athenea Digita, 2018-03-06)La tragedia de Antígona ha sido apropiada estética y políticamente por artistas y activistas en México para discutir la búsqueda de personas desaparecidas. Reflexionando sobre las relaciones entre la futilidad, las tecnologías ... -
“The Map of the Mexican’s Genome”: overlapping national identity, and population genomics
(Springer Verlag, 2010-10-01)This paper explores the intersections between national identity and the production of medical/population genomics in Mexico. The ongoing efforts to construct a Haplotype Map of Mexican genetic diversity offers a unique ... -
Colombian forensic genetics as a form of public science: The role of race, nation and common sense in the stabilization of DNA populations
(SAGE Publications, 2015-03-30)This article examines the role that vernacular notions of racialized-regional difference play in the constitution and stabilization of DNA populations in Colombian forensic science, in what we frame as a process of public ... -
Explaining the visible and the invisible: Public knowledge of genetics, ancestry, physical appearance and race in Colombia
(SAGE Publications, 2015-12-23)Using data from focus groups conducted in Colombia, we explore how educated lay audiences faced with scenarios about ancestry and genetics draw on widespread and dominant notions of nation, race and belonging in Colombia ... -
Attitudes Towards the Donation of Human Embryos for Stem Cell Research Among Chinese IVF Patients and Students.
(Springer Verlag, 2018-07-02)Bioethical debates on the use of human embryos and oocytes for stem cell research have often been criticized for the lack of empirical insights into the perceptions and experiences of the women and couples who are asked ... -
Feeling nothing: Numbness and emotional absence
(Wiley, 2018-07-12)I argue that it is possible for a subject to undergo experiences of emotional absence, during which she becomes aware of her own failure to be moved by the world around her. Just as a part of one's body feels numb when it ... -
Computational Anthrozoology - a manifesto: ‘as the lens’ and ‘under the lens’
(International Society for Anthrozoology (ISAZ), 2018-07-02)The author will discuss the role of computer-based research in Anthrozoology, proposing it as an emerging field of research: Computational Anthrozoology. This term includes both (i) using computers to study human interspecies ... -
Non-humans, technology and symbiotic ethics: the challenges of developing an ethical framework for an emerging research area
(The International Society for Anthrozoology (ISAZ), 2018-07-19)Presentation to Symposium 10: 'Anthrozoology as symbiotic ethics, and the ethics of anthrozoological research'. Includes conference paper and accompanying presentation. -
Absent, yet present? Moving with ‘Responsible Research and Innovation’ in radiation protection research
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-10)Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) remains an essentially contested concept, yet potentially facilitates the development of a substantial network comprising actors with a variety of roles, expectations, and stakes, ... -
“Could we meet?”: A conversation on collaboration, feeling and failure
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Organisms in Experimental Research
(Springer, 2019-06-28)Research on non-human organisms has been a major focus in the scholarship of historians of biology, especially over the past 25 years. This chapter identifies four overarching trends concerning historical scholarship on ... -
Judith Butler, Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter
(Suhrkamp Verlag, 2018-03-12)Aus heutiger Sicht bereitet Butlers Kritik an Theorien der Ontogenese des vergeschlechtlichten Subjekts und seines Begehrens die Grundlage für eine neue Ethik der Intersubjektivität sowie des zwischenmenschlichen Handelns ... -
Translational research: an imperative shaping the spaces in biomedicine
(STS Italia, 2014)In this paper we recapitulate the history of the conceptual entwinement of biomedicine and translation and argue that a translational imperative (still peripheral to the practices that order the fields unified under the ... -
Regulatory capacity building and the governance of clinical stem cell research in China
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-02-01)While other works have explained difficulties in applying ‘international’ guidelines in the field of regenerative medicine in so-called low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in terms of ‘international hegemony’, ... -
Human Embryo Gene Editing in China: The Uncertain Legal Status of the Embryo
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-03-23)In this article, we examine processes of ethical deliberation, legislative developments, and social and political factors that have contributed to the emergence of human embryo gene editing as a field of life science ... -
Aesthetics and Affect: Engaging Energy Communities
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018-07-05)Engaging publics in participatory events has been regarded as a central means to introducing lay people's voices into processes of technoscientific innovation and governance. While many criticisms have been levelled at the ... -
Digital orphans: Data closure and openness in patient- powered networks
(Palgrave Macmillan and Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018-06-06)In this paper, we discuss an issue linked to data-sharing regimes in patient-powered, social-media-based networks, namely that most of the data that patient users share are not used to research scientific issues or the ... -
Where health and environment meet: The use of invariant parameters in big data analysis
(Springer Verlag, 2018-06-08)The use of big data to investigate the spread of infectious diseases or the impact of the built environment on human wellbeing goes beyond the realm of traditional approaches to epidemiology, and includes a large variety ...