Nicole Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 112127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9492-9766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Epistemic oligarchisation
The concentration and capture of personal data has attracted much attention in recent years, with scholars raising alarms about the harms of contemporary ‘data-opolies’ (Stucke, 2018), ‘data enclav...
The regulatory ethos in science
This paper introduces the concept of the regulatory ethos to describe some common values and ideals that underscore the close connection between validation and regulation that this issue of BJHS Themes explores. We identify the primary motivation for this ethos as making knowledge production processes traceable, and define the regulatory ethos as valuing plans over situated actions, uniformity over heterogeneity, auditing over communication, and …
Efficacy of the Tuned In music emotion regulation program in international university students
OBJECTIVE: Moving overseas to study can be exciting, however many international students find this transition stressful. Therefore, empirically supported strategies to assist with managing stress and supporting well-being are needed. Motivated music listening is an effective stress management strategy, and is linked with international student well-being. Tuned In is a group program designed to increase emotion awareness and regulation using motiv…
On first reading Bruno Latour
Differentiation and Language Acquisition in Children’s Understanding of Emotion
This chapter provides evidence of two processes that contribute to the acquisition of emotion categories (represented by their labels). The first is a process in which children gradually differentiate an early, valence-based (i.e., feels good vs. feels bad) emotion understanding into more discrete categories, while also learning to link the various components of emotion (e.g., causes, consequences, behaviors, facial expressions, labels) until the…
Accessibility and Inclusion for Families with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Cultural Institutions
This project aimed to develop a comprehensive set of evaluation tools to assess the accessibility and inclusion of families with children on the autism spectrum in cultural institutions. A stakeholder team conducted interviews, reviewed museum artifacts, and observed museum programming. An evaluation toolkit was constructed by incorporating best practices from current literature and collected data. Tools were piloted and revised after being imple…
Harms of encampment abatements on the health of unhoused people
Abatements, or “sweeps,” are key instruments used by local governments to address increasing numbers of homeless encampments, but they are controversial, underdocumented, and understudied. To examine how social policies, such as abatements, impact the health of people who are unhoused, we interviewed unhoused people on their recent experiences with local abatement practices. Between 2018 and 2020, we used community-based participatory research ap…
Motion Increases Recognition of Naturalistic Postures but not Facial Expressions
The Methodologists
This essay introduces a new analytical category of scientific actors: the methodologists. These actors are distinguished by their tendency to continue to probing scientific objects that their peers consider to be settled. The methodologists are a useful category of actors for science and technology studies (STS) scholars to follow because they reveal contingencies and uncertainties in taken-for-granted science. Identifying methodologists is usefu…
Book Forum
Daniel Navon, Mobilizing Mutations
The scene is a conference room in Disney World in 2012, the site of the eighth biennial meeting of the International 22q11.2 Foundation. In between conference panels with liberally deployed ‘Of Mice and Men’ jokes, parents, patients, activists, scientists and genetic counsellors chat in the hallways and take pictures with Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Collectively, they lament the lack of resources devoted to this genetic disorder, the difficulties of…
Andrew Hogan. Life Histories of Genetic Disease
Andrew Hogan. Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics Andrew Hogan. Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 280 pp. Nicole C Nelson Nicole C Nelson Department of History, University of Wisconsin—Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History …
Opening the Regulatory Black Box of Clinical Cancer Research
Model homes for model organisms
Triple negative breast cancer”
Gene Jockeys
Journal Article Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise Get access Nicolas Rasmussen. Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. viii, 264 pp., illus., $35.00. Nicole C. Nelson, Ph.D. Nicole C. Nelson, Ph.D. Department of History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Bradley Memorial Building, 1225 Linden Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. nicole.…
Régimes thérapeutiques et dispositifs de preuve en oncologie
À partir d'une analyse empirique du développement de l'oncologie médicale, et en particulier des essais cliniques, au coeur de ces pratiques, cet article examine la question du lien entre innovation organisationnelle et innovation épistémique.Il explore comment les régimes thérapeutiques déployés par les cancérologues comptent parmi les actants principaux du style de pratique centré sur la performance d'essais cliniques, sans que l'on puisse dire…
Régimes thérapeutiques et dispositifs de preuve en oncologie
À partir d'une analyse empirique du développement de l'oncologie médicale et, en particulier, des essais cliniques au cœur de ces pratiques, cet article examine la question du lien entre innovation organisationnelle et innovation épistémique. Il explore comment les régimes thérapeutiques déployés par les cancérologues comptent parmi les actants principaux du style de pratique centré sur la performance d'essais cliniques, sans que l'on puisse dire…
Making Organisms Model Human Behavior
ArgumentWe examine the criteria used to validate the use of nonhuman organisms in North-American alcohol addiction research from the 1950s to the present day. We argue that this field, where the similarities between behaviors in humans and non-humans are particularly difficult to assess, has addressed questions of model validity by transforming the situatedness of non-human organisms into an experimental tool. We demonstrate that model validity d…
Testing devices or experimental systems? Cancer clinical trials take the genomic turn
On being “actionable”
This article explores commercial, academic, and national initiatives aimed at using sequencing technologies to generate “actionable” genomic results that can be applied to the clinical management of oncology patients. We argue that the term “actionable” is not merely a buzzword, but signals the emergence of a distinctive sociotechnical regime of genomic medicine in oncology. Unlike other regimes of genomic medicine that are organized around asses…
Shooting Genes, Distributing Credit
Using oral histories with scientists, technology transfer managers and other collaborators who were involved with the development of the biolistic gene gun, I investigate how actors narrate their experiences of technology transfer. The individuals who worked on the gene gun draw on two different interpretive repertoires for describing the innovation process: a ‘localized’ repertoire that highlights defined moments and the conceptual contributions…
Modeling mouse, human, and discipline
Animal models of human disorders are a ubiquitous feature of contemporary biomedical research, but how is their value and role in understanding human disorders established? This article examines the dynamics of building up (and sometimes knocking down) claims about what a model can demonstrate in the field of animal behavior genetics. Drawing on long-standing analogies that describe scientific knowledge production as a process of construction, I …
Introduction
Anticipatory knowledge is a rich and multifaceted object of investigation by virtue of the epistemic difficulties associated with ensuring its reliability, the blend of descriptive and performative dimensions contained within it, and its complex and often ambiguous temporality. This paper draws attention to the particular importance of anticipatory knowledge within the context of the state, where actors employ this kind of knowledge for, among ot…
Modeling mouse, human, and discipline
Animal models of human disorders are a ubiquitous feature of contemporary biomedical research, but how is their value and role in understanding human disorders established? This article examines the dynamics of building up (and sometimes knocking down) claims about what a model can demonstrate in the field of animal behavior genetics. Drawing on long-standing analogies that describe scientific knowledge production as a process of construction, I …
Testing devices or experimental systems? Cancer clinical trials take the genomic turn
Introduction
Anticipatory knowledge is a rich and multifaceted object of investigation by virtue of the epistemic difficulties associated with ensuring its reliability, the blend of descriptive and performative dimensions contained within it, and its complex and often ambiguous temporality. This paper draws attention to the particular importance of anticipatory knowledge within the context of the state, where actors employ this kind of knowledge for, among ot…
Opening the Regulatory Black Box of Clinical Cancer Research
Triple negative breast cancer”
Régimes thérapeutiques et dispositifs de preuve en oncologie
À partir d'une analyse empirique du développement de l'oncologie médicale et, en particulier, des essais cliniques au cœur de ces pratiques, cet article examine la question du lien entre innovation organisationnelle et innovation épistémique. Il explore comment les régimes thérapeutiques déployés par les cancérologues comptent parmi les actants principaux du style de pratique centré sur la performance d'essais cliniques, sans que l'on puisse dire…
Making Organisms Model Human Behavior
ArgumentWe examine the criteria used to validate the use of nonhuman organisms in North-American alcohol addiction research from the 1950s to the present day. We argue that this field, where the similarities between behaviors in humans and non-humans are particularly difficult to assess, has addressed questions of model validity by transforming the situatedness of non-human organisms into an experimental tool. We demonstrate that model validity d…
Régimes thérapeutiques et dispositifs de preuve en oncologie
À partir d'une analyse empirique du développement de l'oncologie médicale, et en particulier des essais cliniques, au coeur de ces pratiques, cet article examine la question du lien entre innovation organisationnelle et innovation épistémique.Il explore comment les régimes thérapeutiques déployés par les cancérologues comptent parmi les actants principaux du style de pratique centré sur la performance d'essais cliniques, sans que l'on puisse dire…
On first reading Bruno Latour
Shooting Genes, Distributing Credit
Using oral histories with scientists, technology transfer managers and other collaborators who were involved with the development of the biolistic gene gun, I investigate how actors narrate their experiences of technology transfer. The individuals who worked on the gene gun draw on two different interpretive repertoires for describing the innovation process: a ‘localized’ repertoire that highlights defined moments and the conceptual contributions…
Introduction
Anticipatory knowledge is a rich and multifaceted object of investigation by virtue of the epistemic difficulties associated with ensuring its reliability, the blend of descriptive and performative dimensions contained within it, and its complex and often ambiguous temporality. This paper draws attention to the particular importance of anticipatory knowledge within the context of the state, where actors employ this kind of knowledge for, among ot…
Shooting Genes, Distributing Credit
Using oral histories with scientists, technology transfer managers and other collaborators who were involved with the development of the biolistic gene gun, I investigate how actors narrate their experiences of technology transfer. The individuals who worked on the gene gun draw on two different interpretive repertoires for describing the innovation process: a ‘localized’ repertoire that highlights defined moments and the conceptual contributions…
Modeling mouse, human, and discipline
Animal models of human disorders are a ubiquitous feature of contemporary biomedical research, but how is their value and role in understanding human disorders established? This article examines the dynamics of building up (and sometimes knocking down) claims about what a model can demonstrate in the field of animal behavior genetics. Drawing on long-standing analogies that describe scientific knowledge production as a process of construction, I …
On being “actionable”
This article explores commercial, academic, and national initiatives aimed at using sequencing technologies to generate “actionable” genomic results that can be applied to the clinical management of oncology patients. We argue that the term “actionable” is not merely a buzzword, but signals the emergence of a distinctive sociotechnical regime of genomic medicine in oncology. Unlike other regimes of genomic medicine that are organized around asses…
Régimes thérapeutiques et dispositifs de preuve en oncologie
À partir d'une analyse empirique du développement de l'oncologie médicale, et en particulier des essais cliniques, au coeur de ces pratiques, cet article examine la question du lien entre innovation organisationnelle et innovation épistémique.Il explore comment les régimes thérapeutiques déployés par les cancérologues comptent parmi les actants principaux du style de pratique centré sur la performance d'essais cliniques, sans que l'on puisse dire…
Régimes thérapeutiques et dispositifs de preuve en oncologie
À partir d'une analyse empirique du développement de l'oncologie médicale et, en particulier, des essais cliniques au cœur de ces pratiques, cet article examine la question du lien entre innovation organisationnelle et innovation épistémique. Il explore comment les régimes thérapeutiques déployés par les cancérologues comptent parmi les actants principaux du style de pratique centré sur la performance d'essais cliniques, sans que l'on puisse dire…
Making Organisms Model Human Behavior
ArgumentWe examine the criteria used to validate the use of nonhuman organisms in North-American alcohol addiction research from the 1950s to the present day. We argue that this field, where the similarities between behaviors in humans and non-humans are particularly difficult to assess, has addressed questions of model validity by transforming the situatedness of non-human organisms into an experimental tool. We demonstrate that model validity d…
Testing devices or experimental systems? Cancer clinical trials take the genomic turn
Gene Jockeys
Journal Article Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise Get access Nicolas Rasmussen. Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. viii, 264 pp., illus., $35.00. Nicole C. Nelson, Ph.D. Nicole C. Nelson, Ph.D. Department of History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Bradley Memorial Building, 1225 Linden Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706. nicole.…
Model homes for model organisms
Triple negative breast cancer”
Opening the Regulatory Black Box of Clinical Cancer Research
Andrew Hogan. Life Histories of Genetic Disease
Andrew Hogan. Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics Andrew Hogan. Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 280 pp. Nicole C Nelson Nicole C Nelson Department of History, University of Wisconsin—Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History …
The Methodologists
This essay introduces a new analytical category of scientific actors: the methodologists. These actors are distinguished by their tendency to continue to probing scientific objects that their peers consider to be settled. The methodologists are a useful category of actors for science and technology studies (STS) scholars to follow because they reveal contingencies and uncertainties in taken-for-granted science. Identifying methodologists is usefu…
Book Forum
Daniel Navon, Mobilizing Mutations
The scene is a conference room in Disney World in 2012, the site of the eighth biennial meeting of the International 22q11.2 Foundation. In between conference panels with liberally deployed ‘Of Mice and Men’ jokes, parents, patients, activists, scientists and genetic counsellors chat in the hallways and take pictures with Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Collectively, they lament the lack of resources devoted to this genetic disorder, the difficulties of…
Motion Increases Recognition of Naturalistic Postures but not Facial Expressions
Differentiation and Language Acquisition in Children’s Understanding of Emotion
This chapter provides evidence of two processes that contribute to the acquisition of emotion categories (represented by their labels). The first is a process in which children gradually differentiate an early, valence-based (i.e., feels good vs. feels bad) emotion understanding into more discrete categories, while also learning to link the various components of emotion (e.g., causes, consequences, behaviors, facial expressions, labels) until the…
Accessibility and Inclusion for Families with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Cultural Institutions
This project aimed to develop a comprehensive set of evaluation tools to assess the accessibility and inclusion of families with children on the autism spectrum in cultural institutions. A stakeholder team conducted interviews, reviewed museum artifacts, and observed museum programming. An evaluation toolkit was constructed by incorporating best practices from current literature and collected data. Tools were piloted and revised after being imple…
Harms of encampment abatements on the health of unhoused people
Abatements, or “sweeps,” are key instruments used by local governments to address increasing numbers of homeless encampments, but they are controversial, underdocumented, and understudied. To examine how social policies, such as abatements, impact the health of people who are unhoused, we interviewed unhoused people on their recent experiences with local abatement practices. Between 2018 and 2020, we used community-based participatory research ap…
On first reading Bruno Latour
Efficacy of the Tuned In music emotion regulation program in international university students
OBJECTIVE: Moving overseas to study can be exciting, however many international students find this transition stressful. Therefore, empirically supported strategies to assist with managing stress and supporting well-being are needed. Motivated music listening is an effective stress management strategy, and is linked with international student well-being. Tuned In is a group program designed to increase emotion awareness and regulation using motiv…
Epistemic oligarchisation
The concentration and capture of personal data has attracted much attention in recent years, with scholars raising alarms about the harms of contemporary ‘data-opolies’ (Stucke, 2018), ‘data enclav...
The regulatory ethos in science
This paper introduces the concept of the regulatory ethos to describe some common values and ideals that underscore the close connection between validation and regulation that this issue of BJHS Themes explores. We identify the primary motivation for this ethos as making knowledge production processes traceable, and define the regulatory ethos as valuing plans over situated actions, uniformity over heterogeneity, auditing over communication, and …
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