Maria Fannin
Biographic Data
| ID | 260399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Fannin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Fannin |
| SIGNATURE | FANNIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8922-2499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 278 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Lively and Unstable Implosions: (Re)Productive Objects as Experiments in Ad-Hoc Archives
This article is a collaborative piece, written between a group of geographers and artists. Together, we explore an “ad-hoc archive” of extraordinary and everyday objects associated with reproduction, broadly conceived. Some objects are directly or indirectly aimed at enhancing reproductive health or well-being, others at arresting or enhancing fertility, others still at expanding notions of reproduction beyond the genetic or biological. Objects a…
The Construction and Politics of the ‘Birth Experience’ in Britain, 1948–93
A new concept of childbirth ‘experience’ emerged in late twentieth-century Britain, crafted by an erratic yet powerful mesh of interest groups. Experience is a powerful and malleable concept, that has been mobilised in different ways over time. In this case study, discussions of ‘experiencing’ childbirth were first the grounding for a culture of complaint, and birthing people were typically spoken for. In later years, to ‘experience’ childbirth w…
Fluid modernities: The birthing pool in late twentieth-century Britain
Birthing pools are a common feature of maternity units across Europe and North America, and in home birth practice. Despite their prevalence and popularity, these blue or white, often bulky plastic objects have received minimal empirical or theoretical analysis. This article attends to the emergence, design and meaning of such birthing pools, with a focus on the UK in the 1980s and 1990s. Across spheres of media, political and everyday debate, th…
Power, intersectionality and stigma: Informing a gender- and spatially-sensitive public health approach to women and gambling in Great Britain
In Britain more men participate in gambling than women, although the gender gap is narrowing; and online gambling is increasing among women and men. Gambling practices differ between men and women but also between different groups of women, with evidence that younger women are diversifying to gamble in different ways from older women. Complex and powerful spatial, socio-cultural and economic forces shape women's experiences of gambling, the probl…
Interventions in the political geographies of resistance: The contributions of Cindi Katz, 15 years on
n Contains fulltext :\n 252619.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The poetics of labour, birth, and bodies
This commentary responds to Bagelman and Gitome’s article, ‘Birthing Across Borders: “Contracting” Reproductive Geographies’, in the context of the growing attention paid to an increasingly diverse set of work on ‘reproductive geographies’. Their call for more South-South stories of birth, and of birth in liminal places, resonates with the growing body of literature exploring dimensions of abortion, fertility, reproductive technology, childbirth,…
The violence of silencing
In December 2020, the International Review of Law and Economics (IRLE) published an article by Harvard law professor J. Mark Ramseyer, ‘Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War’, that is premised on the unsupported and scholarly-consensus-defying claim that thousands of young women and girls mostly from Korea, who ended up in Japanese military ‘comfort women’ stations during the Pacific War, were paid sex workers. Scholars were quick to criticize R…
Feminism and futurity: Geographies of resistance, resilience and reworking
This article is designed to stimulate debate over the possibilities for thinking feminist futures. It argues for moving away from a linear understanding of feminism which assumes that past feminism produces present and future feminism as a response to its previous waves. Instead, we argue for embracing the multiplicity and simultaneity of contemporary feminisms, taking inspiration from Elizabeth Grosz’s writings on futurity and Cindi Katz’s work …
BrisSynBio Art-Science Dossier
Finding avenues for collaboration and engagement between the arts and the sciences (natural and social) was a central theme of investigation for the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Public Engagement programme at BrisSynBio, a BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre that is now part of the Bristol BioDesign Institute at University of Bristol (UK). The reflections and experiments that appear in this dossier are a sample of these…
Blood culture: Reimag(in)ing life at a cellular scale
This paper reflects on collaboration between an artist, a scientist, and two social scientists involved in research on cultured red blood cells. Cell culture is part of a suite of methods used by bioscientists to study cellular processes outside of the living organism. The production of laboratory-grown blood is at the cutting-edge of cell culture and regenerative medicine, with hopes for significant therapeutic benefit in the future, particularl…
Labour Pain, 'Natal Politics' and Reproductive Justice for Black Birth Givers
The reception of Elaine Scarry's landmark text, The Body in Pain, focuses in part on exploring how pain might be understood as beneficial or therapeutic. Childbirth is often cited as the paradigmatic instance of this kind of beneficial pain. This essay examines conceptualizations of labour pain in biomedical, natural childbirth and reproductive justice movements that explore the limits of Scarry's description of pain as 'unshareable'. Political s…
Gender dynamics in the donation field: Human Tissue Donation for Research, Therapy and Feeding
This paper examines how gender dynamics shape human tissue donation for research and for human health. Drawing on research investigating the donation of different types of bodily tissues including blood, plasma, breastmilk, cord blood, foetal tissue and placentae we consider how and why women and men are viewed as different kinds of donors. We situate these donation practices within a broader understanding of gender difference to explain why any …
Thinking with the uterine
This commentary on Sophie Lewis’s essay, ‘Cyborg uterine geography: complicating care and social reproduction’ considers what a ‘uterine geography’ could offer for thinking about the body, sex, reproduction, pregnancy, birth, afterbirth, care, pain and love in new ways. While affirming the efforts in the text to generate a more complex, more-than-human and queer account of reproduction, it also raises several questions. How do narratives of mater…
Birth work’ accompaniment and PhD supervision: An alternative feminist pedagogy for the neoliberal university
In this paper, we discuss how ‘with-woman’ midwifery and doula care provide resources for rethinking the theory and practice of academic supervision from a feminist perspective. We identify how the tradition of accompaniment in both birth work and academia is under threat given the economic reforms facing public sector education and health care. Despite these pressures, we suggest that the practice of focusing on the pregnant woman as an ‘expert’…
Belly Casts and Placenta Pills: Refiguring Postmaternal Entrepreneurialism
This article takes at its starting point the idea that maternalism and entrepreneurialism are necessarily antithetical as Julie Stephens argues in Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory, and Care [2012. New York: Columbia University Press]. Building on scholarship which shows how motherhood has become commercialised and commodified in contemporary culture, we extend this field by investigating how mothers who are providers of service…
Refiguring the Postmaternal
In Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory, Care (2011) Julie Stephens identifies a significant cultural anxiety about care-giving, nurturing and human dependency she calls ‘postmaterna
Origin stories from a regional placenta tissue collection
Twenty-three years ago when women and their children were recruited to a longitudinal genetic epidemiological study during pregnancy, placentas were collected at birth. This paper explores the history of a regional placenta biobank and contemporary understandings of its value for the constitution of a research population. We draw on interviews with some of the mothers and those responsible for the establishment and curation of the placenta collec…
The spirit of Guattari
Joe Gerlach and Thomas Jellis’ essay calls on geographers to extend their engagement with the rich spatial vocabularies of Gilles Deleuze’s collaborator and co-author, Felix Guattari. This commentary considers the tenor of Gerlach and Jellis’ call to think alongside Guattari and invites them to situate their response to the heterogenous, transnational communities that make up their disciplinary audience. It also optimistically calls for recognizi…
Work, life, bodies: New materialisms and feminisms
Placental relations
The placenta's role as a mediating passage between bodies has been a conceptual resource for feminist theorists and philosophers interested in developing more nuanced explanations of the maternal-fetal relation, a relation that has tended to be identified with maternal and fetal bodies rather than with the placenta between them. I draw on efforts by philosopher Luce Irigaray and her readers to theorise placental relations as a model for the negot…
New Times, New Spaces: Gendered Transformations of Governance, Economy, and Citizenship
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 20, Number 2, Summer 2013
The burden of choosing wisely: Biopolitics at the beginning of life
Recent transformations in French maternal health care demonstrate how the government of the beginning of life encompasses an individual woman's desires and aspirations for the uses of her own body. Women are increasingly solicited by the French health care system to express their feelings, their wishes, and their distress to a medical professional for whom the solicitation of such narratives has become a professional specificity. This essay focus…
Cultural activism and the politics of place-making
In this paper, we explore the relationship between creative practice, activism and urban place-making by considering the role they play in the construction of meaning in urban spaces. Through an analysis of two activist groups based in Stokes Croft, Bristol (UK), we argue that cultural activism provides new political prospects within the wider context of global capitalism through the cultivation of a shared aesthetics of protest. By cultivating a…
The Hoarding Economy of Endometrial Stem Cell Storage
The proliferation of for-profit enterprises offering stem cell storage services for personal use illustrates one of the ways health is increasingly governed through uncertainty and speculative notions of risk. Without any firm guarantee of therapeutic utility, commercial stem cell banks offer to store a range of bodily tissues, signalling the further transformation of the living body into an accumulation strategy within biotechnology capitalism's…
Placental Surfaces and the Geographies of Bodily Interiors
Within geographical research on 'the body', a focus on the surfaces of bodies has been useful for considering how body boundaries, most often implied to begin and end at the skin, (de)limit, (de)regulate, and (de)stabilise what we come to know as 'a body'. Such work draws attention to how meaning is inscribed 'upon' such surfaces and on the fluids that move across, within, and through those surfaces: for example blood, breast milk, and excrement.…
Letting Geography Fall Where it May - Aerographies Address the Elemental
Placental Surfaces and the Geographies of Bodily Interiors
Within geographical research on 'the body', a focus on the surfaces of bodies has been useful for considering how body boundaries, most often implied to begin and end at the skin, (de)limit, (de)regulate, and (de)stabilise what we come to know as 'a body'. Such work draws attention to how meaning is inscribed 'upon' such surfaces and on the fluids that move across, within, and through those surfaces: for example blood, breast milk, and excrement.…
Feminism and futurity: Geographies of resistance, resilience and reworking
This article is designed to stimulate debate over the possibilities for thinking feminist futures. It argues for moving away from a linear understanding of feminism which assumes that past feminism produces present and future feminism as a response to its previous waves. Instead, we argue for embracing the multiplicity and simultaneity of contemporary feminisms, taking inspiration from Elizabeth Grosz’s writings on futurity and Cindi Katz’s work …
Cultural activism and the politics of place-making
In this paper, we explore the relationship between creative practice, activism and urban place-making by considering the role they play in the construction of meaning in urban spaces. Through an analysis of two activist groups based in Stokes Croft, Bristol (UK), we argue that cultural activism provides new political prospects within the wider context of global capitalism through the cultivation of a shared aesthetics of protest. By cultivating a…
Domesticating Birth in the Hospital: “Family‐Centered” Birth and the Emergence of “Homelike” Birthing Rooms
Childbirth is both an embodied and symbolic process, and the home and the hospital have been the shifting and contested sites of childbirth in contemporary discourses of birth in the United States. I argue that the economic and cultural imperatives of deregulation and downsizing of US health‐care produce new spaces of domesticity and birthing bodies. Through an examination of the relatively recent transformations of hospital space into “homelike”…
Placental relations
The placenta's role as a mediating passage between bodies has been a conceptual resource for feminist theorists and philosophers interested in developing more nuanced explanations of the maternal-fetal relation, a relation that has tended to be identified with maternal and fetal bodies rather than with the placenta between them. I draw on efforts by philosopher Luce Irigaray and her readers to theorise placental relations as a model for the negot…
The burden of choosing wisely: Biopolitics at the beginning of life
Recent transformations in French maternal health care demonstrate how the government of the beginning of life encompasses an individual woman's desires and aspirations for the uses of her own body. Women are increasingly solicited by the French health care system to express their feelings, their wishes, and their distress to a medical professional for whom the solicitation of such narratives has become a professional specificity. This essay focus…
Personal stem cell banking and the problem with property
Social scientists increasingly view biotechnological innovation as inseparable from the social and economic transformations of value attributed to human tissue. Informed by research on the exchange relationships embedded in biotechnology's 'tissue economies,' this essay discusses the transformation of female reproductive biology into a regenerative resource within one sector of the US biotechnology economy, the commercial stem cell banking indust…
Interventions in the political geographies of resistance: The contributions of Cindi Katz, 15 years on
n Contains fulltext :\n 252619.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The Hoarding Economy of Endometrial Stem Cell Storage
The proliferation of for-profit enterprises offering stem cell storage services for personal use illustrates one of the ways health is increasingly governed through uncertainty and speculative notions of risk. Without any firm guarantee of therapeutic utility, commercial stem cell banks offer to store a range of bodily tissues, signalling the further transformation of the living body into an accumulation strategy within biotechnology capitalism's…
Gender dynamics in the donation field: Human Tissue Donation for Research, Therapy and Feeding
This paper examines how gender dynamics shape human tissue donation for research and for human health. Drawing on research investigating the donation of different types of bodily tissues including blood, plasma, breastmilk, cord blood, foetal tissue and placentae we consider how and why women and men are viewed as different kinds of donors. We situate these donation practices within a broader understanding of gender difference to explain why any …
Belly Casts and Placenta Pills: Refiguring Postmaternal Entrepreneurialism
This article takes at its starting point the idea that maternalism and entrepreneurialism are necessarily antithetical as Julie Stephens argues in Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory, and Care [2012. New York: Columbia University Press]. Building on scholarship which shows how motherhood has become commercialised and commodified in contemporary culture, we extend this field by investigating how mothers who are providers of service…
Author meets critics: A set of reviews and a response
Kathleen Stewart Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 144 pp., $18.95/£11.99 paperback, (ISBN 978-0822341079) $64.95/£47.00 hardback (ISBN 978-0822340881). Words fail. And so we need to experim
Labour Pain, 'Natal Politics' and Reproductive Justice for Black Birth Givers
The reception of Elaine Scarry's landmark text, The Body in Pain, focuses in part on exploring how pain might be understood as beneficial or therapeutic. Childbirth is often cited as the paradigmatic instance of this kind of beneficial pain. This essay examines conceptualizations of labour pain in biomedical, natural childbirth and reproductive justice movements that explore the limits of Scarry's description of pain as 'unshareable'. Political s…
New Times, New Spaces: Gendered Transformations of Governance, Economy, and Citizenship
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 20, Number 2, Summer 2013
Professional Citizenship and Medical Nationalism in France
In principle, the European Union provides for the free movements of workers between its member states. No worker should be discriminated against based solely on nationality, and this applies to most jobs in the public sector. In practice, however, the elimination of nationality criteria for public sector work applies only to workers from EU member states. In the French public health care system, discrimination based on nationality, either of the …
BrisSynBio Art-Science Dossier
Finding avenues for collaboration and engagement between the arts and the sciences (natural and social) was a central theme of investigation for the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Public Engagement programme at BrisSynBio, a BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre that is now part of the Bristol BioDesign Institute at University of Bristol (UK). The reflections and experiments that appear in this dossier are a sample of these…
Work, life, bodies: New materialisms and feminisms
Power, intersectionality and stigma: Informing a gender- and spatially-sensitive public health approach to women and gambling in Great Britain
In Britain more men participate in gambling than women, although the gender gap is narrowing; and online gambling is increasing among women and men. Gambling practices differ between men and women but also between different groups of women, with evidence that younger women are diversifying to gamble in different ways from older women. Complex and powerful spatial, socio-cultural and economic forces shape women's experiences of gambling, the probl…
The poetics of labour, birth, and bodies
This commentary responds to Bagelman and Gitome’s article, ‘Birthing Across Borders: “Contracting” Reproductive Geographies’, in the context of the growing attention paid to an increasingly diverse set of work on ‘reproductive geographies’. Their call for more South-South stories of birth, and of birth in liminal places, resonates with the growing body of literature exploring dimensions of abortion, fertility, reproductive technology, childbirth,…
The violence of silencing
In December 2020, the International Review of Law and Economics (IRLE) published an article by Harvard law professor J. Mark Ramseyer, ‘Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War’, that is premised on the unsupported and scholarly-consensus-defying claim that thousands of young women and girls mostly from Korea, who ended up in Japanese military ‘comfort women’ stations during the Pacific War, were paid sex workers. Scholars were quick to criticize R…
Thinking with the uterine
This commentary on Sophie Lewis’s essay, ‘Cyborg uterine geography: complicating care and social reproduction’ considers what a ‘uterine geography’ could offer for thinking about the body, sex, reproduction, pregnancy, birth, afterbirth, care, pain and love in new ways. While affirming the efforts in the text to generate a more complex, more-than-human and queer account of reproduction, it also raises several questions. How do narratives of mater…
Birth work’ accompaniment and PhD supervision: An alternative feminist pedagogy for the neoliberal university
In this paper, we discuss how ‘with-woman’ midwifery and doula care provide resources for rethinking the theory and practice of academic supervision from a feminist perspective. We identify how the tradition of accompaniment in both birth work and academia is under threat given the economic reforms facing public sector education and health care. Despite these pressures, we suggest that the practice of focusing on the pregnant woman as an ‘expert’…
Refiguring the Postmaternal
In Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory, Care (2011) Julie Stephens identifies a significant cultural anxiety about care-giving, nurturing and human dependency she calls ‘postmaterna
The spirit of Guattari
Joe Gerlach and Thomas Jellis’ essay calls on geographers to extend their engagement with the rich spatial vocabularies of Gilles Deleuze’s collaborator and co-author, Felix Guattari. This commentary considers the tenor of Gerlach and Jellis’ call to think alongside Guattari and invites them to situate their response to the heterogenous, transnational communities that make up their disciplinary audience. It also optimistically calls for recognizi…
The Battle in Seattle: A Response from Local Geographers in the Midst of the WTO Ministeral Meetings
Domesticating Birth in the Hospital: “Family‐Centered” Birth and the Emergence of “Homelike” Birthing Rooms
Childbirth is both an embodied and symbolic process, and the home and the hospital have been the shifting and contested sites of childbirth in contemporary discourses of birth in the United States. I argue that the economic and cultural imperatives of deregulation and downsizing of US health‐care produce new spaces of domesticity and birthing bodies. Through an examination of the relatively recent transformations of hospital space into “homelike”…
Runner‐up: Transnational Midwifery Activism in Québec and France
The ‘Midwifery Question’ in Québec: New Problematics of Birth, Body, Self
Author meets critics: A set of reviews and a response
Kathleen Stewart Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 144 pp., $18.95/£11.99 paperback, (ISBN 978-0822341079) $64.95/£47.00 hardback (ISBN 978-0822340881). Words fail. And so we need to experim
Every Form Refers to Life
Professional Citizenship and Medical Nationalism in France
In principle, the European Union provides for the free movements of workers between its member states. No worker should be discriminated against based solely on nationality, and this applies to most jobs in the public sector. In practice, however, the elimination of nationality criteria for public sector work applies only to workers from EU member states. In the French public health care system, discrimination based on nationality, either of the …
Letting Geography Fall Where it May - Aerographies Address the Elemental
Personal stem cell banking and the problem with property
Social scientists increasingly view biotechnological innovation as inseparable from the social and economic transformations of value attributed to human tissue. Informed by research on the exchange relationships embedded in biotechnology's 'tissue economies,' this essay discusses the transformation of female reproductive biology into a regenerative resource within one sector of the US biotechnology economy, the commercial stem cell banking indust…
New Times, New Spaces: Gendered Transformations of Governance, Economy, and Citizenship
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 20, Number 2, Summer 2013
The burden of choosing wisely: Biopolitics at the beginning of life
Recent transformations in French maternal health care demonstrate how the government of the beginning of life encompasses an individual woman's desires and aspirations for the uses of her own body. Women are increasingly solicited by the French health care system to express their feelings, their wishes, and their distress to a medical professional for whom the solicitation of such narratives has become a professional specificity. This essay focus…
Cultural activism and the politics of place-making
In this paper, we explore the relationship between creative practice, activism and urban place-making by considering the role they play in the construction of meaning in urban spaces. Through an analysis of two activist groups based in Stokes Croft, Bristol (UK), we argue that cultural activism provides new political prospects within the wider context of global capitalism through the cultivation of a shared aesthetics of protest. By cultivating a…
The Hoarding Economy of Endometrial Stem Cell Storage
The proliferation of for-profit enterprises offering stem cell storage services for personal use illustrates one of the ways health is increasingly governed through uncertainty and speculative notions of risk. Without any firm guarantee of therapeutic utility, commercial stem cell banks offer to store a range of bodily tissues, signalling the further transformation of the living body into an accumulation strategy within biotechnology capitalism's…
Placental Surfaces and the Geographies of Bodily Interiors
Within geographical research on 'the body', a focus on the surfaces of bodies has been useful for considering how body boundaries, most often implied to begin and end at the skin, (de)limit, (de)regulate, and (de)stabilise what we come to know as 'a body'. Such work draws attention to how meaning is inscribed 'upon' such surfaces and on the fluids that move across, within, and through those surfaces: for example blood, breast milk, and excrement.…
Work, life, bodies: New materialisms and feminisms
Placental relations
The placenta's role as a mediating passage between bodies has been a conceptual resource for feminist theorists and philosophers interested in developing more nuanced explanations of the maternal-fetal relation, a relation that has tended to be identified with maternal and fetal bodies rather than with the placenta between them. I draw on efforts by philosopher Luce Irigaray and her readers to theorise placental relations as a model for the negot…
Origin stories from a regional placenta tissue collection
Twenty-three years ago when women and their children were recruited to a longitudinal genetic epidemiological study during pregnancy, placentas were collected at birth. This paper explores the history of a regional placenta biobank and contemporary understandings of its value for the constitution of a research population. We draw on interviews with some of the mothers and those responsible for the establishment and curation of the placenta collec…
The spirit of Guattari
Joe Gerlach and Thomas Jellis’ essay calls on geographers to extend their engagement with the rich spatial vocabularies of Gilles Deleuze’s collaborator and co-author, Felix Guattari. This commentary considers the tenor of Gerlach and Jellis’ call to think alongside Guattari and invites them to situate their response to the heterogenous, transnational communities that make up their disciplinary audience. It also optimistically calls for recognizi…
Belly Casts and Placenta Pills: Refiguring Postmaternal Entrepreneurialism
This article takes at its starting point the idea that maternalism and entrepreneurialism are necessarily antithetical as Julie Stephens argues in Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory, and Care [2012. New York: Columbia University Press]. Building on scholarship which shows how motherhood has become commercialised and commodified in contemporary culture, we extend this field by investigating how mothers who are providers of service…
Refiguring the Postmaternal
In Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory, Care (2011) Julie Stephens identifies a significant cultural anxiety about care-giving, nurturing and human dependency she calls ‘postmaterna
Birth work’ accompaniment and PhD supervision: An alternative feminist pedagogy for the neoliberal university
In this paper, we discuss how ‘with-woman’ midwifery and doula care provide resources for rethinking the theory and practice of academic supervision from a feminist perspective. We identify how the tradition of accompaniment in both birth work and academia is under threat given the economic reforms facing public sector education and health care. Despite these pressures, we suggest that the practice of focusing on the pregnant woman as an ‘expert’…
Thinking with the uterine
This commentary on Sophie Lewis’s essay, ‘Cyborg uterine geography: complicating care and social reproduction’ considers what a ‘uterine geography’ could offer for thinking about the body, sex, reproduction, pregnancy, birth, afterbirth, care, pain and love in new ways. While affirming the efforts in the text to generate a more complex, more-than-human and queer account of reproduction, it also raises several questions. How do narratives of mater…
Labour Pain, 'Natal Politics' and Reproductive Justice for Black Birth Givers
The reception of Elaine Scarry's landmark text, The Body in Pain, focuses in part on exploring how pain might be understood as beneficial or therapeutic. Childbirth is often cited as the paradigmatic instance of this kind of beneficial pain. This essay examines conceptualizations of labour pain in biomedical, natural childbirth and reproductive justice movements that explore the limits of Scarry's description of pain as 'unshareable'. Political s…
Gender dynamics in the donation field: Human Tissue Donation for Research, Therapy and Feeding
This paper examines how gender dynamics shape human tissue donation for research and for human health. Drawing on research investigating the donation of different types of bodily tissues including blood, plasma, breastmilk, cord blood, foetal tissue and placentae we consider how and why women and men are viewed as different kinds of donors. We situate these donation practices within a broader understanding of gender difference to explain why any …
BrisSynBio Art-Science Dossier
Finding avenues for collaboration and engagement between the arts and the sciences (natural and social) was a central theme of investigation for the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Public Engagement programme at BrisSynBio, a BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre that is now part of the Bristol BioDesign Institute at University of Bristol (UK). The reflections and experiments that appear in this dossier are a sample of these…
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