Investigating Emerging Biomedical Practices

Zones of Awkward Engagement on Different Scales

Bibliographic Data

ID5337901
AuthorsMichalis Kontopodis (0000-0003-3948-2265, Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany,), Jörg Niewöhner (0000-0002-9034-9761, Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany), Stefan Beck (Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
Year2011
Volume36
Issue5
Pages599-615
Publication date2011-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243910392798
OpenAlexW2124195392
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited56

This special issue of Science, Technology, & Human Values critically explores a new stage in which the life sciences and biomedical practices have entered. This new stage is marked by postgenomic developments and an increased interest of life sciences in the everyday lives of people outside laboratories and clinical settings. Furthermore, particular attention is given to many chronic and degenerative disorders such as cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, or developmental disorders. These developments coincide-or have become entangled-with a new set of interests that an anthropologically inclined science and technology studies (STS) is bringing to the analyses of biomedical practices. An increased interest is observed in the anthropologically inclined STS in studying phenomena on different scales and in exploring fields that are not readily dominated by technoscientific rationality in practice. The introduction to the special issue examines briefly these developments and situates them in a broader genealogy of different movements that have taken place in the anthropologically inclined subfield of STS since the late 1970s and early 1980s

Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Everyday life · Rationality · Social science · Sociology · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Computer Science · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, Genetics, and Society

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