Sociology, Philosophy & Anthropology
Recent Submissions
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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)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 ... -
Concealment and discovery: the role of information security in biomedical data re-use
(SAGE Publications, 2018)This paper analyses the role of information security (IS) in shaping the dissemination and re-use of biomedical data, as well as the embedding of such data in the material, social and regulatory landscapes of research. We ... -
Meno's paradox and medicine
(Springer Verlag, 2017-12-26)The measurement of diagnostic accuracy is an important aspect of the evaluation of diagnostic tests. Sometimes, medical researchers try to discover the set of observations that are most accurate of all by directly inspecting ... -
Recontacting or not recontacting? A survey of current practices in clinical genetics centres in Europe
(Springer Nature for European Society of Human Genetics, 2018-04-23)Advances in genomic medicine are improving diagnosis and treatment of some health conditions, and the question of whether former patients should be recontacted is therefore timely. The issue of recontacting is becoming ... -
On “Aesthetic Publics”: The Case of VANTAblack®
(SAGE Publications, 2018-05-07)This exploratory paper investigates the enactment of a number of “publics” in relation to a recent, ostensibly technical, innovation, namely, the nanotechnology VANTAblack®. In particular, we show how various representations ... -
Against Thatcherite linguistics: Rule-following, speech communities, and biolanguage
(Wiley, 2018-06-05)According to Chomsky and his followers, language as a biological phenomenon is a property of individual minds and brains; its status as a social phenomenon is merely epiphenomenal, and not a proper object of scientific ... -
European regulations as a barrier to stem cell regenerative medicine
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018)Current European regulations hinder the compilation of the evidence that would be required to bring safe and effective autologous stem cell–based interventions (SCBIs) into standard clinical care. European agencies have ... -
Of Manners and Hedgehogs: Building closeness by maintaining distance
(Wiley for Australian Anthropological Society, 2018-05-28)This paper explores how the Japanese inhabitants of a densely populated urban neighbourhood negotiate proximity and distance in their social relationships. Based on ethnography of a community salon in the city of Osaka, ... -
Differences in partnership and marital status at first birth by women’s and their partners’ education: evidence from Britain 1991–2012
(Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2018-03-19)Non-marital childbearing, especially within cohabitation, has become increasingly common in Britain, as in other Western countries. Nonetheless, births outside of marriage occur more frequently among individuals who are ... -
A 'joint venture' model of recontacting in clinical genomics: challenges for responsible implementation
(Elsevier, 2017-05-10)Advances in genomics often lead healthcare professionals (HCPs) to learn new information, e.g., about reinterpreted variants that could have clinical significance for patients seen previously. A question arises of whether ... -
Beyond individualism: Is there a place for relational autonomy in clinical practice and research?
(SAGE Publications, 2017-09-01)The dominant, individualistic understanding of autonomy that features in clinical practice and research is underpinned by the idea that people are, in their ideal form, independent, self-interested and rational gain-maximising ... -
Merleau-Ponty
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Extending the extended mind: the case for extended affectivity
(Springer Verlag, 2014-06-24)The thesis of the extended mind (ExM) holds that the material underpinnings of an individual’s mental states and processes need not be restricted to those contained within biological boundaries: when conditions are right, ... -
Introduction: Open data and Africa
(Ubiquity Press, 2018-02-19)This introduction outlines the contents of the special collection “Open Data and Africa”, which documents the goals and aspirations associated with Open Data means in Africa today: what opportunities they offer, what ... -
An ethnographic approach to researching the introduction of new forensic DNA technologies in policing in the UK
(Sage Publications Ltd., 2018-01-12)Forensic DNA techniques provide essential support in criminal investigations, especially in the case of serious and major crimes where no expenses are spared. However, we know less about their current use and provision ... -
Reconfiguring the violent encounter? Preloading, security staff and breathalyser use in the night-time economy
(Elsevier, 2018-04-03)Background: In a culture of preloading and late-night licenses, alcohol-related violence remains a persistent problem for police and public health. Understood as a ritualized ‘micro-social’ interaction (Collins 2009a; ...