Volumes Available
Articles can be accessed through our publishers, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Journals Online - BioSocieties
Volume 1 : Vol.1(1), Vol.1(2), Vol.1(3), Vol.1(4)
Volume 2: Vol.2(1), Vol.2(2), Vol.2(3), Vol.2(4)
Volume 3: Vol.3(1), Vol.3(2), Vol.3(3)
Editors’ Introduction
Anne Harrington, Nikolas Rose and Ilina Singh
Genomics and a Scientifically Responsible Ethics
Sydney Brenner
The Cartesian Body
Ian Hacking
The Rise of Genetic Couplehood? A Comparative View of Premarital Genetic Testing
Barbara Prainsack and Gil Siegal
The Venetian Forks: Hopes, Fears and Bodies
Arthur W. Frank
The Flesh Made Word: Banking the Body in the Age of Information
Cathy Gere and Bronwyn Parry
Umbilical Cord Blood: From Social Gift to Venture Capital
Catherine Waldby
Embryonic Economies: The Double Reproductive Value of Stem Cells
Sarah Franklin
Between Dreams and Reality: The Dutch Approach to Genomics and Society
Marli Huijer
Neuro-forum: An Introduction
Ilina Singh and Nikolas Rose
Improving our Brains?
Steven Hyman
Neuroethics of Cognitive Enhancement
Danielle C. Turner and Barbara J. Sahakian
The Work of Antidepressants: Preliminary Notes on How to Build an Alliance Between Feminism and Psychopharmacology
Elizabeth Wilson
Introducing the ‘Books Forum’
Nathan Greenslit
Too Much Ownership: Bio-prospecting in the Age of Synthetic Biology
Alain Pottage
Ceci n’est pas une psychose. Toward a Historical Epistemology of Model Psychoses
Nicolas Langlitz
The Many Meanings of the Placebo Effect: Where They Came From, Why They Matter
Anne Harrington
Biopower Today
Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose
Somatographic Investigations Across Levels of Complexity
Stefan Beck and Jörg Niewöhner
The Clinical Clash over Social Phobia: The Americanization of French Experiences?
Stephanie Lloyd
‘I’m not Really Read up on Genetics’: Biobanks and the Social Context of Informed Consent
Michael Barr
Books Forum: Review of Francis Fukuyama’s Our Posthuman Future
Introduction
Nathan Greenslit
A reflection of Francis Fukuyama’s Our Posthuman Future
David B. Resnik
Clones and critics in the age of biocapital
Sheila Jasanoff
Shadows in the dark
Jack Price
The Pharmaceutical Person
Emily Martin
The Political Economy of Hope: Patients’ Organizations, Science and Biovalue
Carlos Novas
Forum on Race and Genomics
Introduction to the Discussion of Race and Ethnicity in Nature Genetics
Nikolas Rose
Can Science Alone Improve the Measurement and Communication of Race and Ethnicity in Genetic Research? Exploring the Strategies Proposed by Nature Genetics
Andrew Smart, Richard Tutton, Richard Ashcroft, Paul A. Martin and George T.H. Ellison
‘Race’ and Ethnicity in Science, Medicine and Society
Charmaine D.M. Royal
The Promissory Pasts of Blood Stem Cells
Nik Brown, Alison Kraft and Paul Martin
Fraudulent Stem Cell Research and Respect for the Embryo
Emily Jackson
Books Forum: Review of Michael Gazzaniga's The Ethical Brain
Broad, Deep and Indirect: The Potential Influence of Neuroscience in Law
Amanda C. Pustilnik
An Honest Incoherence
Steven Rose
Can Science Save the Day?
David Jones
Citizen Neuroethics
Joseph Dumit
Advise and Consent: On the Americanization of Body Worlds
Linda Schulte-Sasse
Population Biobanks: The Ethical Gravity of Informed Consent
Ole Andreas Brekke and Thorvald Sirnes
How to Define a Population: Cultural Politics and Population Genetics in the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China
Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner
Biosocial Suffering: Order and Illness in Urban West Africa
Duana Fullwiley
A Framework for Understanding Trends in ADHD Diagnoses and Stimulant Drug Treatment: Schools and Schooling as a Case Study
Ilina Singh
Rationality, Risk and Response: A Research Agenda for Biosecurity
Filippa Lentzos
Disorders Without Borders? The Expanding Scope of Psychiatric Practice
Nikolas Rose
An Elusive Evidence Base: The Construction and Governance of Randomised Controlled Trials
Ayo Wahlberg and Linsey McGoey
Are RCTs the gold standard?
Nancy Cartwright
Clinical Trials Offshore: On Pharmaceutical Evidence and Hidden Harms
Adriana Petryna
Drug Trials and Evidence Bases in International Regulatory Context
John Abraham
The Right Patients for the Drug: Managing the Placebo Effect in Antidepressant Trials
Andrew Lakoff
Professionalism, Indeterminacy and the EBM Project
David Armstrong
The Alchemy of Clinical Trials
Catherine Will
The struggle for clinical authority: Shifting ontologies and the politics of evidence
Uffe Juul Jensen
Commentary
A defence of the randomised controlled trial in mental health
Simon Wessely
Interview
Truth, disclosure and the influence of industry on the development of NICE guidelines: An interview with Tim Kendall. London, England.
Tim Kendall and Linsey McGoey
Books Forum: Review of Archie Cochrane's Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services
Doing the Best We Can
Richard Ashcroft
A Book of Its Time
Wendy Rogers
Introduction
Integrating Social Science with Neuroscience: Potentials and Problems
John Cromby
The Midwifery Question in Québec: New Problematics of Birth, Body, Self
Maria Fannin
Breast Cancer on Long Island: The Emergence of a New Object Through Mapping Practices
Lisa Diedrich and Emily Boyce
Forum on Race and Genomics
Race and Genetics: Attempts to Define the Relationship
Duana Fullwiley
Democratic Mis-Haps: The Problem of Democratization in a Time of Biopolitics
Jenny Reardon
How Deep Is the Skin? The Geneticization of Race and Medicine
Gísli Pálsson
Books Forum
What Do Bioethicists Read?
Javier Lezaun
Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment
Arthur Caplan
Bioethics and secular humanism
Brenda Almond
Moral understandings: A feminist study in ethics
Jackie Leach Scully
Love in the ruins
Carl Elliot
Rethinking life and death
Maria Casado
Human identity and bioethics
Steven Holland
The body multiple: Ontology in medical practice
Michael Parker
Mirage of health
Daniel Callahan
Editors’ Introduction
Anne Harrington, Nikolas Rose and Ilina Singh
Blue-green Capital, Biotechnological Circulation and an Oceanic Imaginary: A Critique of Biopolitical Economy
Stefan Helmreich
‘First World Health Care at Third World Prices’: Globalization, Bioethics and Medical Tourism
Leigh Turner
Person, Patent and Property: A Critique of the Commodification Hypothesis
Klaus Hoeyer
Predictive Genetic Information and Access to Life Assurance: The Poverty of ‘Genetic Exceptionalism’
James Mittra
Interview
Visions of Frontier Knowledge: An Interview with Helga Nowotny
Sarah Franklin
Books Forum
Towards a Bioeconomy
Javier Lezaun
Making the Bioeconomy Measurable: Politics of an Emerging Anticipatory Machinery
Stephen Hilgartner
Cornering the Futures Market in ‘Bio-epistemology’
Bronwyn Parry
Editors’ Introduction
Anne Harrington, Nikolas Rose and Ilina Singh
‘I Bambini e le Droghe’: The Right to Ritalin vs the Right to Childhood in Italy
Giovanni Frazzetto, Sinéad Keenan and Ilina Singh
‘Nationalizing Embryos’: The Politics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in Italy
Ingrid Metzler
Framing Women, Framing Fetuses: How Britain Regulates Arrangements for the Collection and Use of Aborted Fetuses in Stem Cell Research and Therapies
Naomi Pfeffer and Julie Kent
Commentary
Biosecurity 101: Pirbright’s Lessons in Laboratory Security
T. Hugh Pennington
Books Forum
Technologies of Breast Cancer Genetics and the Practice of Health
Javier Lezaun
Ambiguous Mutations: Breast Cancer Genetics and the Quest for Meaningful Molecular Medicine
Karen-Sue Taussig
Interview
In Dialogue with the Authors
Javier Lezaun, Sahra Gibbon and Shobita Parthasarathy
Editors’ Introduction
Anne Harrington, Nikolas Rose and Ilina Singh
Debate
Beyond the Genome: The Challenge of Synthetic Biology
Articles
The Changing Nature of Ideology in the Life Sciences in Mainland China: Case-studies of Human Cloning and Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (hESR) in Medical Textbooks (1996–2005)
Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner
Pathways to Plausibility: When Herbs Become Pills
Ayo Wahlberg
Human Tissue and ‘the Public’: The Case of Childhood Cancer Tumour Banking
Mary Dixon-Woods, Clare Jackson, Duncan Wilson, Debbie Cavers, Kathy Pritchard-Jones
Interview
Pattern Recognition: Biometrics, Identity and the State - An Interview with John Daugman
Mathew Kabatoff and John Daugman
Books Forum: Forum on the Nuffield Report The forensic use of bioinformation: Ethical issues
A Swedish Perspective
Ricky Ansell and Birgitta Rasmusson
An Austrian Perspective
Barbara Prainsack
A Belgian Perspective
Kris Dierickx
A Portuguese Perspective
Helena Machado
A Norwegian Perspective
Johanne Yttri Dahl
The ‘Opinionization’ of Fingerprint Evidence
Simon A. Cole
Editors’ Introduction
Lecture
Nature and the Natural
Evelyn Fox Keller
Articles
Secularism, Sanctity and the Wrongness of Killing
Emily Jackson
Pappworth’s Guinea Pigs
Carl Elliott
Petty Cash and the Neuroscientific Mapping of Pleasure
Simon Cohn
Global Pharmaceutical Markets and Corporate Citizenship: The Case of Novartis’ Anti-cancer Drug Glivec
Stefan Ecks
From Resistance to Usefulness: Sociology and the Clinical Use of Genetic Tests
Adam Hedgecoe
Creating the Network and the Actors: The FBI’s Role in the Standardization of Forensic DNA Profiling
Jay D. Aronson
The Forensic Use of Bioinformation: A Review of Responses to the Nuffield Report, published in BioSocieties, Volume 3(1)
Bronwyn Parry
Books Forum
Differences that Matter: A Symposium on Steven Epstein’s Inclusion: The politics of difference in medical research
Javier Lezaun
Theorizing Difference: A Conceptual Advance
Troy Duster
A Journey in America’s Biopolitical Landscape
Vololona Rabeharisoa
Beyond the Politics of Inclusion and Difference
Steve Epstein
Editors’ Introduction
Facilitating Regulation: The Dance of Statistical Significance and Clinical Meaningfulness in Standardizing Technologies for Dementia
Janice E. Graham
Participation and the New Governance of Life
Herbert Gottweis
Catastrophe, Caregiving and Today’s Biomedicine
Arthur Kleinman and Bridget Hanna
What Happened to Molecular Biology?
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Roundtable on Synthetic Biology
Visions and Challenges in Redesigning Life
Filippa Lentzos, Gaymon Bennett, Jef Boeke, Drew Endy and Paul Rabinow
Critical Review
Fieldwork on Another Planet: Social Science Perspectives on the Autism Spectrum
Chloe Silverman
Books Forum
Ethnographic Expeditions into Psychiatry
Javier Lezaun
The Difficulty of Reality in Zones of Abandonment
Veena Das
Mainspring of Psychiatric Revolution
Philippe Pignarre
Mania and the Making of Contemporary US Culture
Anne Lovell
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