Michael Penkler
Biographic Data
| ID | 133548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Penkler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Penkler |
| SIGNATURE | PENKLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3688-172X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Playing science
Is science a game? This review essay examines how contemporary board games not only represent scientific research but actively stage it as a game, by inviting players to perform particular forms of...
Between Open Deliberation and the Capturing of Public Opinion
The past decades have seen increasing calls to actively involve publics in the governance of science and technology. Many public engagement initiatives aim to facilitate the formation of public opinion. But what is an opinion? While the notion is often taken as self-evident, different imaginaries of what opinions are and how they should be formed are highly consequential for shaping relations between technoscience and society. Based on participan…
Bariatrische Chirurgie
Michael Penkler diskutiert in seinem Beitrag, wie die bariatrische Chirurgie als Abnehmpraxis im Kontext gesellschaftlicher Normierungs- und Subjektivierungsweisen zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnt. Während 'critical fat studies' und Aktivist*innen chirurgische Eingriffe oft sehr kritisch gegenüberstehen, werden diese von betroffenen Personen oft als ermächtigend wahrgenommen. Dieser ermächtigende Aspekt von chirurgischen Eingriffen trägt zur Wirkma…
AspireAssist
Caring for biosocial complexity. Articulations of the environment in research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
The research field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) provides a framework for understanding how a wide range of environmental factors, such as deprivation, nutrition and stress, shape individual and population health over the course of a lifetime. DOHaD researchers face the challenge of how to conceptualize and measure ontologically diverse environments and their interactions with the developing organism over extended periods…
Challenging Diversity
This article discusses the effects of two trends in contemporary biomedicine that have so far been largely addressed separately: the steering of fields through programmatic "buzzwords" and the projectified nature of contemporary health research, care, and promotion. Drawing on a case study of an Austrian diversity-sensitive health promotion project related to obesity prevention, we show how the articulation of these trends-governance by buzzwords…
Responsible Research? Dilemmata der Integration gesellschaftlicher und kultureller Perspektiven in naturwissenschaftliche Forschungsprogramme (Einleitung)
Von ‚Fehlanpassungen‘ und ‚metabolischen Ghettos‘
On ‘Mismatch’ and ‘Metabolic Ghettos:’ The Conceptualization of Global Health Differences in Research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease . Epigenetic approaches to human health have received growing attention in the past two decades. They allow to view the development of human organisms as plastic, i.e. as open to influences from the social and material environment such as nutrition, stress, and trauma. This has lent new credence …
How differences matter
Diversity has become a buzzword in medical care, denoting a re-evaluation of what it means to attend to differences among human bodies and lives. Questions about what types of differences matter and how they should be defined have become important normative and analytical challenges. Drawing on two case studies, we show how differences between patients and patient-collectives are not simply waiting to be recognised and addressed but also enacted …
Caring For Evidence
In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in bariatric surgery rates. This form of obesity treatment is often subjected to the critique that it turns patients into passive objects of medical intervention. Similarly, efforts to ‘rationalize’ medicine, as in evidence-based medicine, are sometimes denounced for imposing a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach that neglects patient diversity. We argue that these critiques fail to do justice to th…
Diagnostic Narratives
This study explores how Austrian newspapers and magazines report on the obesity epidemic. We show how the media provide a space for formulating situated diagnostic narratives, that is, accounts that develop both a diagnosis of society through the lens of a health phenomenon and a definition of the phenomenon itself. Nourished by globally circulating discourses, these narratives are articulated in a national context and are enmeshed in biopolitica…
Timescapes of obesity
Obesity is generally considered to be a growing global health problem that results from changes in the way we live in late modern societies. In this article, we argue that investigating the complexities of contemporary timescapes (i.e. the entanglement of physical, culturally framed and personally experienced times) is of key importance for understanding how 'the obesity phenomenon' is conceptualised, performed and acted upon. Analysing both focu…
Timescapes of obesity
Obesity is generally considered to be a growing global health problem that results from changes in the way we live in late modern societies. In this article, we argue that investigating the complexities of contemporary timescapes (i.e. the entanglement of physical, culturally framed and personally experienced times) is of key importance for understanding how 'the obesity phenomenon' is conceptualised, performed and acted upon. Analysing both focu…
Challenging Diversity
This article discusses the effects of two trends in contemporary biomedicine that have so far been largely addressed separately: the steering of fields through programmatic "buzzwords" and the projectified nature of contemporary health research, care, and promotion. Drawing on a case study of an Austrian diversity-sensitive health promotion project related to obesity prevention, we show how the articulation of these trends-governance by buzzwords…
Caring for biosocial complexity. Articulations of the environment in research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
The research field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) provides a framework for understanding how a wide range of environmental factors, such as deprivation, nutrition and stress, shape individual and population health over the course of a lifetime. DOHaD researchers face the challenge of how to conceptualize and measure ontologically diverse environments and their interactions with the developing organism over extended periods…
Caring For Evidence
In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in bariatric surgery rates. This form of obesity treatment is often subjected to the critique that it turns patients into passive objects of medical intervention. Similarly, efforts to ‘rationalize’ medicine, as in evidence-based medicine, are sometimes denounced for imposing a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach that neglects patient diversity. We argue that these critiques fail to do justice to th…
Diagnostic Narratives
This study explores how Austrian newspapers and magazines report on the obesity epidemic. We show how the media provide a space for formulating situated diagnostic narratives, that is, accounts that develop both a diagnosis of society through the lens of a health phenomenon and a definition of the phenomenon itself. Nourished by globally circulating discourses, these narratives are articulated in a national context and are enmeshed in biopolitica…
How differences matter
Diversity has become a buzzword in medical care, denoting a re-evaluation of what it means to attend to differences among human bodies and lives. Questions about what types of differences matter and how they should be defined have become important normative and analytical challenges. Drawing on two case studies, we show how differences between patients and patient-collectives are not simply waiting to be recognised and addressed but also enacted …
Von ‚Fehlanpassungen‘ und ‚metabolischen Ghettos‘
On ‘Mismatch’ and ‘Metabolic Ghettos:’ The Conceptualization of Global Health Differences in Research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease . Epigenetic approaches to human health have received growing attention in the past two decades. They allow to view the development of human organisms as plastic, i.e. as open to influences from the social and material environment such as nutrition, stress, and trauma. This has lent new credence …
Timescapes of obesity
Obesity is generally considered to be a growing global health problem that results from changes in the way we live in late modern societies. In this article, we argue that investigating the complexities of contemporary timescapes (i.e. the entanglement of physical, culturally framed and personally experienced times) is of key importance for understanding how 'the obesity phenomenon' is conceptualised, performed and acted upon. Analysing both focu…
Diagnostic Narratives
This study explores how Austrian newspapers and magazines report on the obesity epidemic. We show how the media provide a space for formulating situated diagnostic narratives, that is, accounts that develop both a diagnosis of society through the lens of a health phenomenon and a definition of the phenomenon itself. Nourished by globally circulating discourses, these narratives are articulated in a national context and are enmeshed in biopolitica…
Caring For Evidence
In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in bariatric surgery rates. This form of obesity treatment is often subjected to the critique that it turns patients into passive objects of medical intervention. Similarly, efforts to ‘rationalize’ medicine, as in evidence-based medicine, are sometimes denounced for imposing a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach that neglects patient diversity. We argue that these critiques fail to do justice to th…
How differences matter
Diversity has become a buzzword in medical care, denoting a re-evaluation of what it means to attend to differences among human bodies and lives. Questions about what types of differences matter and how they should be defined have become important normative and analytical challenges. Drawing on two case studies, we show how differences between patients and patient-collectives are not simply waiting to be recognised and addressed but also enacted …
Responsible Research? Dilemmata der Integration gesellschaftlicher und kultureller Perspektiven in naturwissenschaftliche Forschungsprogramme (Einleitung)
Von ‚Fehlanpassungen‘ und ‚metabolischen Ghettos‘
On ‘Mismatch’ and ‘Metabolic Ghettos:’ The Conceptualization of Global Health Differences in Research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease . Epigenetic approaches to human health have received growing attention in the past two decades. They allow to view the development of human organisms as plastic, i.e. as open to influences from the social and material environment such as nutrition, stress, and trauma. This has lent new credence …
Challenging Diversity
This article discusses the effects of two trends in contemporary biomedicine that have so far been largely addressed separately: the steering of fields through programmatic "buzzwords" and the projectified nature of contemporary health research, care, and promotion. Drawing on a case study of an Austrian diversity-sensitive health promotion project related to obesity prevention, we show how the articulation of these trends-governance by buzzwords…
Bariatrische Chirurgie
Michael Penkler diskutiert in seinem Beitrag, wie die bariatrische Chirurgie als Abnehmpraxis im Kontext gesellschaftlicher Normierungs- und Subjektivierungsweisen zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnt. Während 'critical fat studies' und Aktivist*innen chirurgische Eingriffe oft sehr kritisch gegenüberstehen, werden diese von betroffenen Personen oft als ermächtigend wahrgenommen. Dieser ermächtigende Aspekt von chirurgischen Eingriffen trägt zur Wirkma…
AspireAssist
Caring for biosocial complexity. Articulations of the environment in research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
The research field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) provides a framework for understanding how a wide range of environmental factors, such as deprivation, nutrition and stress, shape individual and population health over the course of a lifetime. DOHaD researchers face the challenge of how to conceptualize and measure ontologically diverse environments and their interactions with the developing organism over extended periods…
Between Open Deliberation and the Capturing of Public Opinion
The past decades have seen increasing calls to actively involve publics in the governance of science and technology. Many public engagement initiatives aim to facilitate the formation of public opinion. But what is an opinion? While the notion is often taken as self-evident, different imaginaries of what opinions are and how they should be formed are highly consequential for shaping relations between technoscience and society. Based on participan…
Playing science
Is science a game? This review essay examines how contemporary board games not only represent scientific research but actively stage it as a game, by inviting players to perform particular forms of...
Obesity and Health Practices (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (3 works)