Helena Machado
Biographic Data
| ID | 89942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helena Machado |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helena |
| FAMILY NAME | Machado |
| SIGNATURE | MACHADO H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minho |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8554-7619 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Following Facial Recognition Technologies Across Social Worlds
Facial recognition technologies (FRTs) are increasingly the subject of public debate, yet qualitative research that follows contemporary controversies around them remains fragmented and often limited to single sites or perspectives. This article presents the study protocol for fAIces ( Facial Recognition Technologies. Etho-Assemblages and Alternative Futures ), an Advanced Grant funded by the European Research Council using a multi-sited, multi-v…
Sociologia da Inteligência Artificial
Propomos uma Sociologia da Inteligência Artificial (IA), reforçando a necessidade de compreender em profundidade as implicações sociais desta tecnologia numa perspetiva arredada de visões deterministas. Apresentamos pistas para abordar a IA como um fenómeno sociotécnico e para desconstruir criticamente mitos culturais, metáforas e expectativas sociais em torno destas tecnologias, e as retóricas empresariais e políticas que os acompanham. Um dos t…
Intrafamilial gamete donation
The data that support the findings of this study are available upon reasonable request from the corresponding author, S. Silva. These data are not publicly available due to a confidentiality agreement securing the privacy and anonymity of research participants
Narratives about distributed health literacy during the Covid-19 pandemic
The promotion of health literacy was a key public health strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the role of social networks and relationships for support with health literacy-related tasks in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is scarcely understood. Moving beyond traditional notions of health literacy, which focus on individual skills and knowledge, this study uses the concept of distributed health literacy to explore how individuals …
Imaginários tecno-autoritários na América Latina
No contexto da expansão global de tecnologias de reconhecimento facial, organizações da sociedade civil têm empreendido ações de contestação do seu uso, invocando riscos de vigilância massiva, ameaças à privacidade e liberdades civis, e desigualdades e discriminação. Este artigo expande o conhecimento sobre a contestação de tecnologias de reconhecimento facial para além dos casos dos EUA e da Europa, analisando a contestação de organizações da so…
Faces of the tropics
This paper investigates 'AI refusal' by analysing how colonial and racialised logics inform the surveillance and representation of Mexicans through facial recognition technologies. Blending conventional academic analysis with a fictional vignette and a visual triptych, the paper offers a creative-critical approach to resistance. The vignette evokes the emotional and embodied impacts of surveillance, while the triptych employs visual metaphors to …
Performing publics of science in the Covid-19 pandemic
Research about science and publics in the COVID-19 pandemic often focuses on public trust and on identifying and correcting public attitudes. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 209 residents in six countries—Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal—this article uses the concept of performativity to explore how participants understand, and relate to science, in the COVID-19 context. By performativity, we mean the ways by which pa…
Benefits and Risks of Sharing Genomic Data for Research
Assessing public and patients' expectations and concerns about genomic data sharing is essential to promote adequate data governance and engagement in rare diseases genomics research. This cross-sectional study compared the views of 159 rare disease patients, 478 informal carers and 63 healthcare professionals in Northern Portugal about the benefits and risks of sharing genomic data for research, and its associated factors. The three participant …
Big Data applied to criminal investigations
Big Data is seen as an increasingly important tool to support policing activities, define security governance policies and assist criminal investigations. Although significant literature has explored the predictive capabilities of Big Data, there has been less focus on the uses of Big Data in criminal investigations, focused on detection and apprehension that occur after a crime has been committed. This article aims to fill this gap through the l…
Species distribution modeling reveals the ecological niche of extinct megafauna from South America
Climatic and environmental changes, as well as human action, have been cited as potential causes for the extinction of megafauna in South America at the end of the Pleistocene. Among megamammals lineages with Holarctic origin, only horses and proboscideans went extinct in South America during this period. This study aims to understand how the spatial extent of habitats suitable for Equus neogeus and Notiomastodon platensis changed between the las…
Racism and Racial Surveillance
Face Masks During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Wearing face masks is recommended as part of personal protective equipment and as a public health measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Their use, however, is deeply connected to social and cultural practices and has acquired a variety of personal and social meanings. This article aims to identify the diversity of sociocultural, ethical, and political meanings attributed to face masks, how they might impac…
Governing expectations of forensic innovations in society
This article is about the governance of expectations of forensic DNA phenotyping (FDP) innovations in Germany used for the prediction of human externally visible traits such as eye, hair, and skin color, as well as biological age and biogeographic ancestry. In 2019, FDP technologies were regulated under the label “extended DNA analysis”. We focus on the expectations of members of the forensic genetics’ community in Germany, in anticipation and re…
The (De)materialization of Criminal Bodies in Forensic DNA Phenotyping
Forensic DNA phenotyping is a genetic technology that might be used in criminal investigations. Based on DNA samples of the human body found at crime scenes, it allows to infer externally visible characteristics (such as eye, hair and skin colour) and continental-based biogeographical ancestry. By indicating the probable visible appearance of a criminal suspect, forensic DNA phenotyping allows to narrow down the focus of a criminal investigation.…
DNA Transnational Data Journeys and the Construction of Categories of Suspicion
Background Systems for large-scale data exchanges are playing a pivotal role in the governance, surveillance, and social control of criminality in different parts of the world. Analysis This article explores the case study of the Prüm system, which is a technological system for the exchange of DNA data among several European Union (EU) countries. Making use of the concept of data journeys, it addresses how the transnational exchange of DNA data i…
Forensic DNA phenotyping and its politics of legitimation and contestation
Forensic DNA Phenotyping (FDP) is a set of techniques that aim to infer externally visible characteristics in humans - such as eye, hair and skin color - and biogeographical ancestry of an unknown person, based on biological material. FDP has been applied in various jurisdictions in a limited number of high-profile cases to provide intelligence for criminal investigations. There are on-going controversies about the reliability and validity of FDP…
Constructing Suspicion Through Forensic DNA Databases in the EU. The Views of the Prüm Professionals
This article explores the fluid and flexible forms of constructing suspicion, which take shape in transnational governance of crime through forensic DNA databases. The empirical examples are the views of professionals engaged with the so-called Prüm system. This technological identification system was developed to enable DNA data exchange across EU Member States in the context of police and judicial cooperation to control cross-border crime and t…
Affected for good or for evil
The United Kingdom has a long tradition of collecting and storing DNA data for criminal identification purposes. The development of the UK National Criminal Intelligence DNA Database has been accompanied by public controversies. Building on recent developments in Science and Technology Studies on public engagement, we elaborate on the concept of emergent and co-produced issue-publics. We explore which different types of issues affect and mobilize…
Quality of websites for gamete donation
Este estudo pretende avaliar a qualidade da informação online sobre doação de gametas em sites de clínicas de fertilidade em Portugal. Todos os sites com informação sobre doação de gametas foram escrutinados em junho de 2017. A confiabilidade e usabilidade de 43 páginas web foram avaliadas usando o instrumento Website Information Evaluation do Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Nenhuma página cumpriu os critérios de propósito, des…
Police epistemic culture and boundary work with judicial authorities and forensic scientists
The exchange of forensic DNA data is seen as an increasingly important tool in criminal investigations into organised crime, control strategies and counter-terrorism measures. On the basis of a set of interviews with police professionals involved in the transnational exchange of DNA data between EU countries, this paper examines how forensic DNA evidence is given meaning within the various different ways of constructing a police epistemic culture…
Ethical Controversies of Familial Searching
Familial searching is a technology that detects genetic relatedness. The term is generally used to refer to searches conducted in criminal DNA databases to identify criminal suspects through their connection with relatives. Beyond criminal investigation purposes, familial searching might also be used for the identification of unknown bodies and missing persons. The United Kingdom and Poland are cases that illustrate the variability of familial se…
Doação de gametas
Conhecer a discussão em torno dos desafios sociais e éticos da doação de gametas é fundamental para a boa governança das técnicas de reprodução assistida. Neste artigo, analisam-se os tópicos que orientaram o debate nas organizações de ética portuguesas, discutindo as suas conexões com os temas abordados internacionalmente. Para tal, em março de 2018, pesquisamos sistematicamente os websites do Conselho Nacional de Procriação Medicamente Assistid…
Photographing prisoners
The use of photography in representing the criminal body has long been a focus of interest in the social sciences, especially so when exploring the historical evolution of criminal identification practices. By contributing to the emerging field of visual criminology, this article explores current practices around photography of prisoners in the everyday contexts of the prison space. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted with prisoners, prison …
Ethics in Transnational Forensic DNA Data Exchange in the EU
Under EU Law, Member States are compelled to engage in reciprocal automated forensic DNA profile exchange for stepping up on cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and cross-border crime. The ethical implications of this transnational DNA data exchange are paramount. Exploring what the concept of ethics means to forensic practitioners actively involved in transnational DNA data exchange allows discussing how ethics can be a…
Consentir na criopreservação de embriões
Este estudo qualitativo analisou as perceções de casais quanto aos fatores que contextualizam o consentimento livre e esclarecido na criopreservação de embriões, a partir de 34 entrevistas semiestruturadas, em Portugal. Analisaram-se os dados segundo os princípios da grounded theory. Dos resultados emergiram as seguintes necessidades: provisão de informações detalhadas, rigorosas, coerentes e no tempo adequado sobre os custos e duração da criopre…
Mothering From Prison and Ideologies of Intensive Parenting
Intensive parenting' ideologies have been increasingly disseminated in popular culture, expert discourses, and social policy. These have impacted particularly mothers owing to their actual or presumed central role in child rearing. One of the main features of these ideologies is an increasing apportioning of rights and responsibilities to families without taking into account the resources needed to sustain the work of caring according to dominant…
Forensic DNA databases in European countries
The political and financial investments in the implementation of forensic DNA databases and the ethical issues related to their use and expansion justify inquiries into their performance and general utility. The main function of a forensic DNA database is to produce matches between individuals and crime scene stains, which requires a constant input of individual profiles and crime scene stains. This is conditioned, among other factors, by the leg…
Forensic DNA phenotyping and its politics of legitimation and contestation
Forensic DNA Phenotyping (FDP) is a set of techniques that aim to infer externally visible characteristics in humans - such as eye, hair and skin color - and biogeographical ancestry of an unknown person, based on biological material. FDP has been applied in various jurisdictions in a limited number of high-profile cases to provide intelligence for criminal investigations. There are on-going controversies about the reliability and validity of FDP…
Constructing Suspicion Through Forensic DNA Databases in the EU. The Views of the Prüm Professionals
This article explores the fluid and flexible forms of constructing suspicion, which take shape in transnational governance of crime through forensic DNA databases. The empirical examples are the views of professionals engaged with the so-called Prüm system. This technological identification system was developed to enable DNA data exchange across EU Member States in the context of police and judicial cooperation to control cross-border crime and t…
Narratives about distributed health literacy during the Covid-19 pandemic
The promotion of health literacy was a key public health strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the role of social networks and relationships for support with health literacy-related tasks in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is scarcely understood. Moving beyond traditional notions of health literacy, which focus on individual skills and knowledge, this study uses the concept of distributed health literacy to explore how individuals …
Big Data applied to criminal investigations
Big Data is seen as an increasingly important tool to support policing activities, define security governance policies and assist criminal investigations. Although significant literature has explored the predictive capabilities of Big Data, there has been less focus on the uses of Big Data in criminal investigations, focused on detection and apprehension that occur after a crime has been committed. This article aims to fill this gap through the l…
Ethics in Transnational Forensic DNA Data Exchange in the EU
Under EU Law, Member States are compelled to engage in reciprocal automated forensic DNA profile exchange for stepping up on cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and cross-border crime. The ethical implications of this transnational DNA data exchange are paramount. Exploring what the concept of ethics means to forensic practitioners actively involved in transnational DNA data exchange allows discussing how ethics can be a…
Reflexoes sobre a investigacao em embrioes de origem humana
Analisam-se os argumentos usados pelas organizações de ética portuguesas na regulação da investigação em embriões de origem humana. Recolheram-se documentos produzidos entre 2006 e 2010. Procedeu-se à análise temática de conteúdo, e as estratégias discursivas foram estudadas a partir de uma abordagem semântica da informação. Discutiram-se o estatuto do embrião abstrato (ser humano/pessoa ou artefato biológico/neoestrutura laboratorial) e os crité…
Heterosexual couples’ uses and meanings of ovarian stimulation
This article is about how ovarian stimulation is understood within the context of heterosexual couples’ relationships. The empirical research involves 15 semi-structured interviews with patients in Portugal who have undergone IVF programmes performed with eggs collected in stimulated cycles. We argue that the uses and meanings of ovarian stimulation expressed in the patients’ narratives represent situated values and knowledges conveyed by existin…
The construction of meaning by experts and would-be parents in assisted reproductive technology
This article explores the construction of meaning regarding assisted reproductive technology by legal framers, medical practitioners and would-be parents, through the concept of ecology of knowledge. It is argued that these inter-relationships between experts and lay people can be understood in terms of the formation of a social structure of ecology of knowledge, which depends on local and emotional knowledge co-produced by medical doctors, juris…
A compreensão jurídica, médica e "leiga" do embrião em Portugal
Pretende-se contribuir para o debate em torno dos processos de circulação de conhecimentos e sentidos entre especialistas e "leigos" no que concerne ao estatuto dos embriões humanos em Portugal. Reflete-se sobre as expectativas e preocupações manifestadas quanto à confiança, qualidade, segurança e eficácia das tecnologias médicas de reprodução assistida. O estudo assenta na realização de entrevistas individuais, com vistas a explorar as complexid…
Biologising Paternity, Moralising Maternity
This article explores how the Portuguese legal system’s efforts to determine paternity of children born outside legal marriage, automatically initiated by the Registry Office when a birth registration does not indicate the father, reveal cultural models which reinforce the naturalisation of the differences between mothers and fathers, with significant effects on the social construction of parental roles and on expectations of family organisation …
The (De)materialization of Criminal Bodies in Forensic DNA Phenotyping
Forensic DNA phenotyping is a genetic technology that might be used in criminal investigations. Based on DNA samples of the human body found at crime scenes, it allows to infer externally visible characteristics (such as eye, hair and skin colour) and continental-based biogeographical ancestry. By indicating the probable visible appearance of a criminal suspect, forensic DNA phenotyping allows to narrow down the focus of a criminal investigation.…
Voluntary Participation in Forensic DNA Databases
The public's understanding of forensic DNA databases remains undertheorized and few empirical studies have been produced. This article aims to address this omission by exploring the answers to an open-ended question taken from an online questionnaire regarding the reasons for individuals' voluntarily accepting or refusing to allow their DNA profile to be included in the Portuguese forensic DNA database. The analysis is undertaken from the perspec…
Biogenética e género na construção da intencionalidade da paternidade
Este artigo aborda as modalidades de intencionalidade da paternidade construídas por mulheres e homens que realizaram testes de DNA ordenados por tribunais, em Portugal, para apuramento da paternidade biológica de crianças sem 'pai oficial'. Partindo de uma perspectiva feminista, analisa-se o impacto das ideologias de género na mediação da intenção de desempenhar o papel de pai, na negociação de relações de parentesco e nos processos sociais e mo…
Construtores da bio(in)segurança na base de dados de perfis de ADN1
Este artigo explora a construção social da bio(in)segurança em torno da base de dados de perfis de ADN em Portugal. Através de uma abordagem etnográfica, Helena Machado analisa as práticas e discursos dos atores envolvidos na criação e gestão da base de dados, incluindo cientistas forenses, legisladores e a população em geral. O estudo examina como a tecnologia do ADN é enquadrada como uma ferramenta para garantir a segurança e a justiça, ao mesm…
A Portuguese Perspective
Biologising Paternity, Moralising Maternity
This article explores how the Portuguese legal system’s efforts to determine paternity of children born outside legal marriage, automatically initiated by the Registry Office when a birth registration does not indicate the father, reveal cultural models which reinforce the naturalisation of the differences between mothers and fathers, with significant effects on the social construction of parental roles and on expectations of family organisation …
Informed Consent in Forensic DNA Databases
Trust, morality and altruism in the donation of biological material
This paper examines a number of social, ethical and cultural issues related to the application of biotechnology. The focus of the paper relies on two different cases of governing biotechnology in Portugal, referring to donation of biological material: the act of donation of eggs and sperm; and volunteers for donation of DNA material for the forensic national DNA database. We analyze the discourses on donation of biological material framing them i…
A compreensão jurídica, médica e "leiga" do embrião em Portugal
Pretende-se contribuir para o debate em torno dos processos de circulação de conhecimentos e sentidos entre especialistas e "leigos" no que concerne ao estatuto dos embriões humanos em Portugal. Reflete-se sobre as expectativas e preocupações manifestadas quanto à confiança, qualidade, segurança e eficácia das tecnologias médicas de reprodução assistida. O estudo assenta na realização de entrevistas individuais, com vistas a explorar as complexid…
Uncertainty, risks and ethics in unsuccessful in vitro fertilisation treatment cycles
In this article we explore the results of interviewing Portuguese couples involved in unsuccessful in vitro fertilisation (IVF) programmes. We argue that the references to uncertainties and risks of IVF procedures and their implications in the mobilisation and in the actions of different social and/or professional groups should be central topics in the debates of biomedicine and bioethics in a broader sense and in local ethics of clinical researc…
Popular press and forensic genetics in Portugal
Two cases of missing children in Portugal ( Joana and Maddie) have recently highlighted the dilemmas and contingencies associated with the technology of “genetic fingerprinting” for forensic purposes in the context of criminal investigations. The purpose of this article is to analyze the popular press’s discourses and representations around forensic genetics in the context of those two highly mediatized criminal investigation cases. The symbolica…
Heterosexual couples’ uses and meanings of ovarian stimulation
This article is about how ovarian stimulation is understood within the context of heterosexual couples’ relationships. The empirical research involves 15 semi-structured interviews with patients in Portugal who have undergone IVF programmes performed with eggs collected in stimulated cycles. We argue that the uses and meanings of ovarian stimulation expressed in the patients’ narratives represent situated values and knowledges conveyed by existin…
Biogenética e género na construção da intencionalidade da paternidade
Este artigo aborda as modalidades de intencionalidade da paternidade construídas por mulheres e homens que realizaram testes de DNA ordenados por tribunais, em Portugal, para apuramento da paternidade biológica de crianças sem 'pai oficial'. Partindo de uma perspectiva feminista, analisa-se o impacto das ideologias de género na mediação da intenção de desempenhar o papel de pai, na negociação de relações de parentesco e nos processos sociais e mo…
Construtores da bio(in)segurança na base de dados de perfis de ADN1
Este artigo explora a construção social da bio(in)segurança em torno da base de dados de perfis de ADN em Portugal. Através de uma abordagem etnográfica, Helena Machado analisa as práticas e discursos dos atores envolvidos na criação e gestão da base de dados, incluindo cientistas forenses, legisladores e a população em geral. O estudo examina como a tecnologia do ADN é enquadrada como uma ferramenta para garantir a segurança e a justiça, ao mesm…
The construction of meaning by experts and would-be parents in assisted reproductive technology
This article explores the construction of meaning regarding assisted reproductive technology by legal framers, medical practitioners and would-be parents, through the concept of ecology of knowledge. It is argued that these inter-relationships between experts and lay people can be understood in terms of the formation of a social structure of ecology of knowledge, which depends on local and emotional knowledge co-produced by medical doctors, juris…
Prisoners' views of CSI's portrayal of forensic identification technologies
Drawing on interviews with prison inmates in Portugal, the aim of this paper is to contribute towards a more practical approach and greater sensitivity to the \nsituatedness of the so-called CSI effect by examining the heterogeneous \nelements involved in the construction of meanings for forensic science and \ntechnology. It discusses the ways in which this particular group’s \nrepresentations of forensic genetics reveal forms of exposure to, but…
Biolegalidade, imaginário forense e investigação criminal
Neste texto discutimos alguns contornos das configuraes locais das representaes e usos sociais da tecnologia de DNA na investigao criminal em Portugal. A abordagem da rede sociotcnica que alinha a cincia forense com polticas de governao estatal, as leis e as prticas de investigao criminal e os imaginrios culturais em torno do DNA e do trabalho de investigao criminal realizada a partir dos conceitos de biolegalidade e de imaginrio forense, por sua…
Forensic DNA databases in European countries
The political and financial investments in the implementation of forensic DNA databases and the ethical issues related to their use and expansion justify inquiries into their performance and general utility. The main function of a forensic DNA database is to produce matches between individuals and crime scene stains, which requires a constant input of individual profiles and crime scene stains. This is conditioned, among other factors, by the leg…
Reflexoes sobre a investigacao em embrioes de origem humana
Analisam-se os argumentos usados pelas organizações de ética portuguesas na regulação da investigação em embriões de origem humana. Recolheram-se documentos produzidos entre 2006 e 2010. Procedeu-se à análise temática de conteúdo, e as estratégias discursivas foram estudadas a partir de uma abordagem semântica da informação. Discutiram-se o estatuto do embrião abstrato (ser humano/pessoa ou artefato biológico/neoestrutura laboratorial) e os crité…
O detetive híbrido
Neste artigo são exploradas as narrativas dos inspetores da PJ (Polícia Judiciária) relativamente aos processos de vigilância e identificação de suspeitos de crime. Recorrendo a uma perspetiva teórico-metodológica do tipo interpretativo e qualitativo, deseja-se mapear o sentido e compreender o significado que os inspetores da PJ atribuem às suas práticas no decurso da investigação criminal. A aplicação da ciência e da tecnologia na investigação c…
Public Perspectives on Risks and Benefits of Forensic DNA Databases
There is scarce knowledge about the influence of the professional group, education, and age on public perspectives on the risks and benefits of forensic DNA databases. Based on data collected through an online questionnaire applied to 628 individuals in Portugal, this research fills that gap. More than three quarters of the respondents believed that the Portuguese forensic DNA database can help fight crime more efficiently and develop a swifter a…
Mothering From Prison and Ideologies of Intensive Parenting
Intensive parenting' ideologies have been increasingly disseminated in popular culture, expert discourses, and social policy. These have impacted particularly mothers owing to their actual or presumed central role in child rearing. One of the main features of these ideologies is an increasing apportioning of rights and responsibilities to families without taking into account the resources needed to sustain the work of caring according to dominant…
Voluntary Participation in Forensic DNA Databases
The public's understanding of forensic DNA databases remains undertheorized and few empirical studies have been produced. This article aims to address this omission by exploring the answers to an open-ended question taken from an online questionnaire regarding the reasons for individuals' voluntarily accepting or refusing to allow their DNA profile to be included in the Portuguese forensic DNA database. The analysis is undertaken from the perspec…
Consentir na criopreservação de embriões
Este estudo qualitativo analisou as perceções de casais quanto aos fatores que contextualizam o consentimento livre e esclarecido na criopreservação de embriões, a partir de 34 entrevistas semiestruturadas, em Portugal. Analisaram-se os dados segundo os princípios da grounded theory. Dos resultados emergiram as seguintes necessidades: provisão de informações detalhadas, rigorosas, coerentes e no tempo adequado sobre os custos e duração da criopre…
Photographing prisoners
The use of photography in representing the criminal body has long been a focus of interest in the social sciences, especially so when exploring the historical evolution of criminal identification practices. By contributing to the emerging field of visual criminology, this article explores current practices around photography of prisoners in the everyday contexts of the prison space. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted with prisoners, prison …
Ethics in Transnational Forensic DNA Data Exchange in the EU
Under EU Law, Member States are compelled to engage in reciprocal automated forensic DNA profile exchange for stepping up on cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and cross-border crime. The ethical implications of this transnational DNA data exchange are paramount. Exploring what the concept of ethics means to forensic practitioners actively involved in transnational DNA data exchange allows discussing how ethics can be a…
Affected for good or for evil
The United Kingdom has a long tradition of collecting and storing DNA data for criminal identification purposes. The development of the UK National Criminal Intelligence DNA Database has been accompanied by public controversies. Building on recent developments in Science and Technology Studies on public engagement, we elaborate on the concept of emergent and co-produced issue-publics. We explore which different types of issues affect and mobilize…
Quality of websites for gamete donation
Este estudo pretende avaliar a qualidade da informação online sobre doação de gametas em sites de clínicas de fertilidade em Portugal. Todos os sites com informação sobre doação de gametas foram escrutinados em junho de 2017. A confiabilidade e usabilidade de 43 páginas web foram avaliadas usando o instrumento Website Information Evaluation do Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Nenhuma página cumpriu os critérios de propósito, des…
Police epistemic culture and boundary work with judicial authorities and forensic scientists
The exchange of forensic DNA data is seen as an increasingly important tool in criminal investigations into organised crime, control strategies and counter-terrorism measures. On the basis of a set of interviews with police professionals involved in the transnational exchange of DNA data between EU countries, this paper examines how forensic DNA evidence is given meaning within the various different ways of constructing a police epistemic culture…
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