C Pinel
Biographic Data
| ID | 5225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Pinel |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Pinel |
| SIGNATURE | PINEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3874-0373 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The experimentality of real-world evidence studies: Turning a population into value
In January 2021, Israel signed an agreement with pharmaceutical company Pfizer guaranteeing the speedy delivery of vaccines. In exchange, Israel committed to collecting and analyzing medical statistics about the effectiveness of the vaccines and its side effects, while sharing those results with Pfizer. Fundamental to this collaboration was the collection and analysis of “Real-World Data” (RWD), which refer to routinely collected data relating to…
The Hidden Labor of Translation: Introduction to Special Issue
Translational medicine is concerned with hastening the application of basic scientific discoveries at the bench toward beneficial clinical outcomes at the bedside. Disrupting linear and simplified views of translational medicine, the contributions to this Special Issue of ST&HV on the Hidden Labor of Translation start from the assumption that translational medicine is best captured as a circular and iterative process, while the boundaries between…
Health in data space: Formative and experiential dimensions of cross-border health data sharing
Healthcare is increasingly datafied, and a wide range of actors-patients, clinicians, administrators, policymakers, and industry lobbyists-want to be able to exchange and access health data internationally and use them for an increasing number of purposes. Therefore, competing initiatives aimed at fostering international data integration proliferate, with the proposed European Health Data Space as one of the most prominent examples. But how do le…
Slowing down decay: Biological clocks in personalized medicine
This article discusses so-called biological clocks. These technologies, based on aging biomarkers, trace and measure molecular changes in order to monitor individuals' "true" biological age against their chronological age. Drawing on the concept of decay, and building on ethnographic fieldwork in an academic laboratory and a commercial firm, we analyze the implications of the development and commercialization of biological clocks that can identif…
Domesticating data: Traveling and value-making in the data economy
Data are versatile objects that can travel across contexts. While data's travels have been widely discussed, little attention has been paid to the sites from where and to which data flow. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork in two connected data-intensive laboratories and the concept of domestication, we explore what it takes to bring data 'home' into the laboratory. As data come and dwell in the home, they are made to follow rituals, and as a re…
Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the Covid-19 pandemic
The sudden and dramatic advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to urgent demands for timely, relevant, yet rigorous research. This paper discusses the origin, design, and execution of the SolPan research commons, a large-scale, international, comparative, qualitative research project that sought to respond to the need for knowledge among researchers and policymakers in times of crisis. The form of organization as a research commons is characterized …
What Counts as the Environment in Epigenetics? Knowledge and Ignorance in the Entrepreneurial University
Epigenetics research is well-known for its attention to the ‘environment,’ as it explores how what surrounds the genes impacts gene regulation. In addition, epigenetics has commonly been described as the new socio-biology capable of capturing how the broadly defined social environment, structured by social inequalities, shapes biology. Yet, this vision is not realised in the context of the entrepreneurial university. In the two laboratories where…
In search of 'extra data: Making tissues flow from personal to personalised medicine
One of the key features of the contemporary data economy is the widespread circulation of data and its interoperability. Critical data scholars have analysed data repurposing practices and other factors facilitating the travelling of data. While this approach focused on flows provides great potential, in this article we argue that it tends to overlook questions of attachment and belonging. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork within a Danish data-…
The unknowers: How strategic ignorance rules the world
What do Alt-right supporters and Brexiteers, British colonialists of the East India Company, Enlightenment thinkers, mainstream economists and the powerful pharmaceutical industry have in common? T
Caring for data: Value creation in a data-intensive research laboratory
Drawing upon ethnographic observations of staff working within a research laboratory built around research and clinical data from twins, this article analyzes practices underlying the production and maintenance of a research database. While critical data studies have discussed different forms of 'data work' through which data are produced and turned into effective research resources, in this paper we foreground a specific form of data work, namel…
When more data means better results: Abundance and scarcity in research collaborations in epigenetics
Drawing upon ethnographic findings from an epigenetics research laboratory in the United Kingdom, this article explores practices of research collaborations in the field of epigenetics, and epigenomics research consortia in particular. I demonstrate that research consortia are key scientific infrastructures that enable the aggregation of masses of data deemed necessary for the production of results and the fostering of epistemic value. Building o…
Markers as mediators: A review and synthesis of epigenetics literature
Caring for data: Value creation in a data-intensive research laboratory
Drawing upon ethnographic observations of staff working within a research laboratory built around research and clinical data from twins, this article analyzes practices underlying the production and maintenance of a research database. While critical data studies have discussed different forms of 'data work' through which data are produced and turned into effective research resources, in this paper we foreground a specific form of data work, namel…
In search of 'extra data: Making tissues flow from personal to personalised medicine
One of the key features of the contemporary data economy is the widespread circulation of data and its interoperability. Critical data scholars have analysed data repurposing practices and other factors facilitating the travelling of data. While this approach focused on flows provides great potential, in this article we argue that it tends to overlook questions of attachment and belonging. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork within a Danish data-…
When more data means better results: Abundance and scarcity in research collaborations in epigenetics
Drawing upon ethnographic findings from an epigenetics research laboratory in the United Kingdom, this article explores practices of research collaborations in the field of epigenetics, and epigenomics research consortia in particular. I demonstrate that research consortia are key scientific infrastructures that enable the aggregation of masses of data deemed necessary for the production of results and the fostering of epistemic value. Building o…
Health in data space: Formative and experiential dimensions of cross-border health data sharing
Healthcare is increasingly datafied, and a wide range of actors-patients, clinicians, administrators, policymakers, and industry lobbyists-want to be able to exchange and access health data internationally and use them for an increasing number of purposes. Therefore, competing initiatives aimed at fostering international data integration proliferate, with the proposed European Health Data Space as one of the most prominent examples. But how do le…
What Counts as the Environment in Epigenetics? Knowledge and Ignorance in the Entrepreneurial University
Epigenetics research is well-known for its attention to the ‘environment,’ as it explores how what surrounds the genes impacts gene regulation. In addition, epigenetics has commonly been described as the new socio-biology capable of capturing how the broadly defined social environment, structured by social inequalities, shapes biology. Yet, this vision is not realised in the context of the entrepreneurial university. In the two laboratories where…
The Hidden Labor of Translation: Introduction to Special Issue
Translational medicine is concerned with hastening the application of basic scientific discoveries at the bench toward beneficial clinical outcomes at the bedside. Disrupting linear and simplified views of translational medicine, the contributions to this Special Issue of ST&HV on the Hidden Labor of Translation start from the assumption that translational medicine is best captured as a circular and iterative process, while the boundaries between…
Domesticating data: Traveling and value-making in the data economy
Data are versatile objects that can travel across contexts. While data's travels have been widely discussed, little attention has been paid to the sites from where and to which data flow. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork in two connected data-intensive laboratories and the concept of domestication, we explore what it takes to bring data 'home' into the laboratory. As data come and dwell in the home, they are made to follow rituals, and as a re…
Markers as mediators: A review and synthesis of epigenetics literature
The unknowers: How strategic ignorance rules the world
What do Alt-right supporters and Brexiteers, British colonialists of the East India Company, Enlightenment thinkers, mainstream economists and the powerful pharmaceutical industry have in common? T
Caring for data: Value creation in a data-intensive research laboratory
Drawing upon ethnographic observations of staff working within a research laboratory built around research and clinical data from twins, this article analyzes practices underlying the production and maintenance of a research database. While critical data studies have discussed different forms of 'data work' through which data are produced and turned into effective research resources, in this paper we foreground a specific form of data work, namel…
When more data means better results: Abundance and scarcity in research collaborations in epigenetics
Drawing upon ethnographic findings from an epigenetics research laboratory in the United Kingdom, this article explores practices of research collaborations in the field of epigenetics, and epigenomics research consortia in particular. I demonstrate that research consortia are key scientific infrastructures that enable the aggregation of masses of data deemed necessary for the production of results and the fostering of epistemic value. Building o…
In search of 'extra data: Making tissues flow from personal to personalised medicine
One of the key features of the contemporary data economy is the widespread circulation of data and its interoperability. Critical data scholars have analysed data repurposing practices and other factors facilitating the travelling of data. While this approach focused on flows provides great potential, in this article we argue that it tends to overlook questions of attachment and belonging. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork within a Danish data-…
Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the Covid-19 pandemic
The sudden and dramatic advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to urgent demands for timely, relevant, yet rigorous research. This paper discusses the origin, design, and execution of the SolPan research commons, a large-scale, international, comparative, qualitative research project that sought to respond to the need for knowledge among researchers and policymakers in times of crisis. The form of organization as a research commons is characterized …
What Counts as the Environment in Epigenetics? Knowledge and Ignorance in the Entrepreneurial University
Epigenetics research is well-known for its attention to the ‘environment,’ as it explores how what surrounds the genes impacts gene regulation. In addition, epigenetics has commonly been described as the new socio-biology capable of capturing how the broadly defined social environment, structured by social inequalities, shapes biology. Yet, this vision is not realised in the context of the entrepreneurial university. In the two laboratories where…
Slowing down decay: Biological clocks in personalized medicine
This article discusses so-called biological clocks. These technologies, based on aging biomarkers, trace and measure molecular changes in order to monitor individuals' "true" biological age against their chronological age. Drawing on the concept of decay, and building on ethnographic fieldwork in an academic laboratory and a commercial firm, we analyze the implications of the development and commercialization of biological clocks that can identif…
Domesticating data: Traveling and value-making in the data economy
Data are versatile objects that can travel across contexts. While data's travels have been widely discussed, little attention has been paid to the sites from where and to which data flow. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork in two connected data-intensive laboratories and the concept of domestication, we explore what it takes to bring data 'home' into the laboratory. As data come and dwell in the home, they are made to follow rituals, and as a re…
Health in data space: Formative and experiential dimensions of cross-border health data sharing
Healthcare is increasingly datafied, and a wide range of actors-patients, clinicians, administrators, policymakers, and industry lobbyists-want to be able to exchange and access health data internationally and use them for an increasing number of purposes. Therefore, competing initiatives aimed at fostering international data integration proliferate, with the proposed European Health Data Space as one of the most prominent examples. But how do le…
The Hidden Labor of Translation: Introduction to Special Issue
Translational medicine is concerned with hastening the application of basic scientific discoveries at the bench toward beneficial clinical outcomes at the bedside. Disrupting linear and simplified views of translational medicine, the contributions to this Special Issue of ST&HV on the Hidden Labor of Translation start from the assumption that translational medicine is best captured as a circular and iterative process, while the boundaries between…
The experimentality of real-world evidence studies: Turning a population into value
In January 2021, Israel signed an agreement with pharmaceutical company Pfizer guaranteeing the speedy delivery of vaccines. In exchange, Israel committed to collecting and analyzing medical statistics about the effectiveness of the vaccines and its side effects, while sharing those results with Pfizer. Fundamental to this collaboration was the collection and analysis of “Real-World Data” (RWD), which refer to routinely collected data relating to…
Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Data science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Ethics in Clinical Research (3 works) · Ignorance (3 works)