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political Epigenetics; Biological citizenship; Genetic citizenship; Epigenetic citizenship; Health disparities; Bioethics; Racism - claims-making, the message is one of empowerment: know your epigenetics ... research with greater enthusiasm. Scholars across fields of biomedicine, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology have acclaimed the potential for epigenetics to characterize the biological impact of social
forced British scientists to accept legal regulation following the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection. British scientists were, however, able to utilise their political leverage and credibility as ... utilised their political influence and expert credentials to influence the licensing and inspection system and challenge antivivisectionist attempts to make charges of cynicism publicly visible. We suggest
health, in order to instantiate new political economies. The papers trace these entanglements in order to consider the making of valuable health and its diverse political economies as historical and ... . Similarly, the political economies that materialize are not singular, nor are they simply instituted ‘from above’, even as particular regimes of state or corporate governance might come to be hegemonic in
. Flinders , and M.T. Johnson . 2020 . In defence of fear: COVID-19, crises and democracy . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy . https://doi.org/10.1080/ 13698230. 2020 . 1834744 ... ; Wehling 2010) have explored ‘biological citizenship’ as newly emerging relationships between citizens and authorities. Highlighting the importance of biological perceptions for the political
despite claims that these countries vehemently opposed “race”. Our findings should inform scholarly and political debates about race, ethnicity, and medicine in Europe that tend to assume, incorrectly, an ... sociocultural history of a group, not biological heredity or essence. Similar anti-racialist arguments are dominant elsewhere in Europe (Goldberg 2009) . Indeed, Simon (2012) has described a political and
the British nation, or the nationalism of animal welfare. Adopting a genealogical outlook, it uses one political advertisement in particular—paid for by the official Vote Leave campaign—as a focalising ... , stress is placed on the constructive role of situated and repeated discursive exchanges, occurring between animal advocates and other national political elites, within which 'care for animals' as a
information infrastructures. Building on an analysis of legal and political documents dating back to the late seventeenth century, we show that confidentiality originated as a social phenomenon that helped ... of citizens rights. Lately, confidentiality has given way to more technocratic forms of data protection. As the political, legal and technological reality, which the idea of confidentiality once
. Reproductive and governing bodies mobilize personal, biomedical, and political actions to proactively secure desirable and eugenically quell unwanted futures, creating a highly stratified reproductive landscape ... , simultaneous anti-natal and pro-natal policies support some families and target others. Reproductive decisions reflect debates over who belongs in the future—undoubtedly, the future does political work, by
technologies and infrastructures, and portrays deliberations on political and legal issues as obstacles to the flow of data. Yet, important epistemic and political questions remain unexamined, such as how the ... Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich , Munich , Germany 1 Department of Political Science, University of Vienna , Vienna , Austria 2 Austrian
how a globally shared concern and political participation through technology use varies with local practices. Hereby we stress that the engagement in the #WeAreNotWaiting movement is both shaped by and ... questions concerning the engagement of affected persons not only regarding their care, but also in shaping the epistemological, political, and technological conditions for their treatment. The
. 2008; Barad 2007; Bennett 2010) focuses on the constitutive agency of non-human entities in social and political life and emphasizes the co-productive relationship between society and nature. However ... , these currents often do not consider questions of political economy (Castree 2002). Marxist scholars at the intersection of economic geography, political ecology, feminism, and science studies have
Science , London , UK 1 Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, School of Social and Political Science, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh, Scotland 2 ... Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science , London , UK This special section comes out of a workshop that explored national cultures of animals, care and science. It was
positions as stakeholders in political agendas; as such, they engage in a still wider range of political decisions, from the prioritisation of research grants to licensing decisions and the prioritisation of ... ; and they can employ political pressure to drive rapid change. Consequently, they are linked to promises of fast-track biomedical advances that not only benefit patients, but also provide financial
Digital political parties entered the political arena in first quarter of twenty-first century as an alternative to the representation crisis of traditional political parties. The purposes of digital ... in pandemic period. Many political activities are cancelled all through the world because of COVID-19 pandemic and in most countries the elections are postponed to uncertain dates. The governments take
character of race itself and its attendant ethical, political, and methodological possibilities and obligations. ... ). Of course, conflict between non-coherent or multiple logics and entities is always a possibility, and tends to accompany political and public deliberations on multiple and conflicting conceptions of
interpretations of human behaviour. See for instance, contemporary work on neuroscience of economic decisions (Camerer et al. 2005) or the theories of Austrian-British Nobel Laureate (1974), political economist ... this successful stabilization and expansion between the two fields was the first Copenhagen Consensus conference. In 2004, Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish political scientist who was dubbed a future leader by
such a conclusion, from both political and epistemic standpoints. At first, the genealogy of AL could be interpreted as an oscillation between the biological side (Cannon and homeostasis) and the social ... risks of reducing the social to the biological, and programmatically called for a multi‑level and inter ‑ disciplinary approach to the social determinants of health. On a political standpoint, Cannon
, here predicated on the production of “life-saving treatments”, represents not only an affectual investment in medical research but one with, as Novas (2006 , p. 289) puts it, “a political and economic ... : Animal ethics and philosophy of body . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. Animals Procedures Committee . 2003 . Review of cost-benefit assessment in the use of animals in research . https
The idea of this paper is to draw a parallel between two diametrically opposed political economies of medicine that coexist today. The first is embodied in the invention, appropriation, and ... paper, I examine the pricing of these 2 classes of drugs, and I argue that the prices synthesize these political economies: they summarize the policy of appropriation of these molecules, aimed at their
existing political and cultural narratives, as well as with varying notions of ‘Chinese-ness’. We find that while scientists in Vietnam use genomics to construct the Vietnamese as genetically independent ... the lab and co-constituted with political and cultural narratives of the state. In doing so, we explore how certain genomic findings are brought into being in these mapping projects based on already
