C Friese
Biographic Data
| ID | 5291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Friese |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Friese |
| SIGNATURE | FRIESE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7144-8046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 185 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Remembering Adele E. Clarke, 1945–2024
The Shadow Bodies of Mice
The clinician-scientist is often viewed as the crucial nexus in the translational processes that turn scientific research into medical technologies, including but not limited to pharmaceuticals. To create a point of contrast, and to consider the theme of invisible labor, this paper foregrounds an alternative actant who has also been deemed a vital nexus in translational medicine within Science and Technology Studies: the laboratory animal as mode…
Everyday Voices as Big Data
This article reflects on the paradox that although research using qualitative interviews has developed sophisticated repertoires of data collection, it has not fully embraced secondary analysis and has struggled to address questions of representativeness. This contrasts with quantitative social science where this is now routine. We discuss recent innovations associated with the 'big qual' approach to assembling data from existing qualitative inte…
Figuring the ‘cynical scientist’ in British animal science
This paper investigates the ‘cynical scientist’ as a figure in British animal science discourse that developed in relation to the nineteenth-century emergence of the ‘sceptical scientist’. Here, efforts by scientists to demarcate their profession’s territory led to religious backlash against an alleged ‘divorce’ of British science from Christian morality. Animal experimentation became embroiled in this controversy through antivivisectionists’ con…
Introduction to national cultures of animals, care and science
Communicative patterns and social networks between scientists and technicians in a culture of care
Communication between scientists and animal technicians is considered important for creating a 'culture of care' in facilities that use animals in scientific research. For example, the Brown report, which investigated alleged failures of animal care at Imperial College London, noted the physical and social separation between animal technicians and scientists as a problem that delimited a culture of care. This paper seeks to better understand the …
Situational Analysis in Practice
Making the anaesthetised animal into a boundary object
This paper explores how, at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection, the anaesthetised animal was construed as a boundary object around which "cooperation without consensus" (Star, in: Esterbrook (ed) Computer supported cooperative work: cooperation or conflict? Springer, London, 1993) could form, serving the interests of both scientists and animals. Advocates of anaesthesia presented it as benevolently intervening between the scientific agent a…
Cultures of care? Animals and science in Britain
It is becoming increasingly common to hear life scientists say that high quality life science research relies upon high quality laboratory animal care. However, the idea that animal care is a crucial part of scientific knowledge production is at odds with previous social science and historical scholarship regarding laboratory animals. How are we to understand this discrepancy? To begin to address this question, this paper seeks to disentangle the…
Intimate entanglements in the animal house
This article presents two vignettes from ethnographic research conducted in a 'biological services unit' or mouse house at a life sciences research institute in the UK. I focus on the 'intimate knowledge' two animal technicians demonstrated as crucial to care for the mice, where affective knowledge operated alongside scientific knowledge of animal welfare and administrative knowledge of keeping laboratory animals. I then show how caring for and a…
Entanglements in Health and Well-being
Drawing on collaborative ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how human health becomes entangled with that of model organisms in day-to-day biomedical science. Social science scholarship on modeling has exploredeitherhow specific models impact and shape our knowledge of human diseaseorhow animal technicians and scientists affect laboratory animals. This article extends this relational approach by asking how embodied and institutional car…
From The Principles to the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act
Posthumanist critique and human health
This paper uses bibliometric analysis and critical discourse analysis to explore the rise in research involving nonhumans in public health, and the potential contribution of posthumanist social theory to this growing body of public health scholarship. There has been a sudden and rather marked increase in research and writing on animals, zoonoses and/or the ‘One-health’ paradigm within public health journals since 2006. Indeed ‘One-health’ rather …
Genetics, Disease, and Reproduction
Regenerating Bodies
Barcoding nature
Realizing Potential in Translational Medicine
This paper examines how a laboratory has responded to the problematics of translational medicine by creating an experimental system that links care for model animals with care for future patients. These scientists explicitly integrate caring practices into their scientific research on the basis that better, more translatable findings will result. Here, the potential of translational medicine to create human therapeutics is viewed as linked with t…
Transposing bodies of knowledge and technique
A prominent feature of biological and biomedical research and therapeutics over the past century is the entanglement of human and other animal bodies in the making and remaking of knowledge, techniques and products. In this paper, we explore how animal models work in two different but interrelated situations: early/mid 20th-century reproductive sciences focused on human biomedicine; and early 21st-century assisted reproduction of endangered anima…
Classification conundrums
Models of Cloning, Models for the Zoo
Older motherhood and the changing life course in the era of assisted reproductive technologies
Rethinking the biological clock
Realizing Potential in Translational Medicine
This paper examines how a laboratory has responded to the problematics of translational medicine by creating an experimental system that links care for model animals with care for future patients. These scientists explicitly integrate caring practices into their scientific research on the basis that better, more translatable findings will result. Here, the potential of translational medicine to create human therapeutics is viewed as linked with t…
Rethinking the biological clock
Transposing bodies of knowledge and technique
A prominent feature of biological and biomedical research and therapeutics over the past century is the entanglement of human and other animal bodies in the making and remaking of knowledge, techniques and products. In this paper, we explore how animal models work in two different but interrelated situations: early/mid 20th-century reproductive sciences focused on human biomedicine; and early 21st-century assisted reproduction of endangered anima…
Classification conundrums
Intimate entanglements in the animal house
This article presents two vignettes from ethnographic research conducted in a 'biological services unit' or mouse house at a life sciences research institute in the UK. I focus on the 'intimate knowledge' two animal technicians demonstrated as crucial to care for the mice, where affective knowledge operated alongside scientific knowledge of animal welfare and administrative knowledge of keeping laboratory animals. I then show how caring for and a…
Older motherhood and the changing life course in the era of assisted reproductive technologies
Entanglements in Health and Well-being
Drawing on collaborative ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how human health becomes entangled with that of model organisms in day-to-day biomedical science. Social science scholarship on modeling has exploredeitherhow specific models impact and shape our knowledge of human diseaseorhow animal technicians and scientists affect laboratory animals. This article extends this relational approach by asking how embodied and institutional car…
Cultures of care? Animals and science in Britain
It is becoming increasingly common to hear life scientists say that high quality life science research relies upon high quality laboratory animal care. However, the idea that animal care is a crucial part of scientific knowledge production is at odds with previous social science and historical scholarship regarding laboratory animals. How are we to understand this discrepancy? To begin to address this question, this paper seeks to disentangle the…
Making the anaesthetised animal into a boundary object
This paper explores how, at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection, the anaesthetised animal was construed as a boundary object around which "cooperation without consensus" (Star, in: Esterbrook (ed) Computer supported cooperative work: cooperation or conflict? Springer, London, 1993) could form, serving the interests of both scientists and animals. Advocates of anaesthesia presented it as benevolently intervening between the scientific agent a…
Communicative patterns and social networks between scientists and technicians in a culture of care
Communication between scientists and animal technicians is considered important for creating a 'culture of care' in facilities that use animals in scientific research. For example, the Brown report, which investigated alleged failures of animal care at Imperial College London, noted the physical and social separation between animal technicians and scientists as a problem that delimited a culture of care. This paper seeks to better understand the …
From The Principles to the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act
Rethinking the biological clock
Older motherhood and the changing life course in the era of assisted reproductive technologies
Models of Cloning, Models for the Zoo
Classification conundrums
Transposing bodies of knowledge and technique
A prominent feature of biological and biomedical research and therapeutics over the past century is the entanglement of human and other animal bodies in the making and remaking of knowledge, techniques and products. In this paper, we explore how animal models work in two different but interrelated situations: early/mid 20th-century reproductive sciences focused on human biomedicine; and early 21st-century assisted reproduction of endangered anima…
Barcoding nature
Realizing Potential in Translational Medicine
This paper examines how a laboratory has responded to the problematics of translational medicine by creating an experimental system that links care for model animals with care for future patients. These scientists explicitly integrate caring practices into their scientific research on the basis that better, more translatable findings will result. Here, the potential of translational medicine to create human therapeutics is viewed as linked with t…
Regenerating Bodies
Genetics, Disease, and Reproduction
Posthumanist critique and human health
This paper uses bibliometric analysis and critical discourse analysis to explore the rise in research involving nonhumans in public health, and the potential contribution of posthumanist social theory to this growing body of public health scholarship. There has been a sudden and rather marked increase in research and writing on animals, zoonoses and/or the ‘One-health’ paradigm within public health journals since 2006. Indeed ‘One-health’ rather …
From The Principles to the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act
Cultures of care? Animals and science in Britain
It is becoming increasingly common to hear life scientists say that high quality life science research relies upon high quality laboratory animal care. However, the idea that animal care is a crucial part of scientific knowledge production is at odds with previous social science and historical scholarship regarding laboratory animals. How are we to understand this discrepancy? To begin to address this question, this paper seeks to disentangle the…
Intimate entanglements in the animal house
This article presents two vignettes from ethnographic research conducted in a 'biological services unit' or mouse house at a life sciences research institute in the UK. I focus on the 'intimate knowledge' two animal technicians demonstrated as crucial to care for the mice, where affective knowledge operated alongside scientific knowledge of animal welfare and administrative knowledge of keeping laboratory animals. I then show how caring for and a…
Entanglements in Health and Well-being
Drawing on collaborative ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how human health becomes entangled with that of model organisms in day-to-day biomedical science. Social science scholarship on modeling has exploredeitherhow specific models impact and shape our knowledge of human diseaseorhow animal technicians and scientists affect laboratory animals. This article extends this relational approach by asking how embodied and institutional car…
Making the anaesthetised animal into a boundary object
This paper explores how, at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection, the anaesthetised animal was construed as a boundary object around which "cooperation without consensus" (Star, in: Esterbrook (ed) Computer supported cooperative work: cooperation or conflict? Springer, London, 1993) could form, serving the interests of both scientists and animals. Advocates of anaesthesia presented it as benevolently intervening between the scientific agent a…
Situational Analysis in Practice
Figuring the ‘cynical scientist’ in British animal science
This paper investigates the ‘cynical scientist’ as a figure in British animal science discourse that developed in relation to the nineteenth-century emergence of the ‘sceptical scientist’. Here, efforts by scientists to demarcate their profession’s territory led to religious backlash against an alleged ‘divorce’ of British science from Christian morality. Animal experimentation became embroiled in this controversy through antivivisectionists’ con…
Introduction to national cultures of animals, care and science
Communicative patterns and social networks between scientists and technicians in a culture of care
Communication between scientists and animal technicians is considered important for creating a 'culture of care' in facilities that use animals in scientific research. For example, the Brown report, which investigated alleged failures of animal care at Imperial College London, noted the physical and social separation between animal technicians and scientists as a problem that delimited a culture of care. This paper seeks to better understand the …
Remembering Adele E. Clarke, 1945–2024
The Shadow Bodies of Mice
The clinician-scientist is often viewed as the crucial nexus in the translational processes that turn scientific research into medical technologies, including but not limited to pharmaceuticals. To create a point of contrast, and to consider the theme of invisible labor, this paper foregrounds an alternative actant who has also been deemed a vital nexus in translational medicine within Science and Technology Studies: the laboratory animal as mode…
Everyday Voices as Big Data
This article reflects on the paradox that although research using qualitative interviews has developed sophisticated repertoires of data collection, it has not fully embraced secondary analysis and has struggled to address questions of representativeness. This contrasts with quantitative social science where this is now routine. We discuss recent innovations associated with the 'big qual' approach to assembling data from existing qualitative inte…
Sociology (15 works) · Biology (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Engineering ethics (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Social science (7 works)