Understated, not overlooked by Anthony Stavrianakis
A Simpler Life: Synthetic Biological Experiments Talia Dan-Cohen Cornell University Press, 2021. 174 pages. First, take a self-consciously self-aggrandizing area of bioengineering,…
On the Search for the Origins of COVID-19: A Forum by Andrew Lakoff
More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus causing the disease remains uncertain. The predominant theory is …
The scientific entrepreneur as hero: from Arrowsmith to the covid-19 vaccines by Ilana Löwy
Cover Arrowsmith, Pocket Books, 1944 Edition Sinclair Lewis’s novel Arrowsmith, published in 1925 to critical and public acclaim (the book was awarded the …
(Dis)continuities in cancer care: An ethnographic approximation to practices of disease stratification by Ignacia Arteaga
Background: Disease stratification practices have long been used as a means to produce and make sense of cancer, distinguishing ‘types’, tumour development …
Web Roundup: Beyond Using More Female Rats: Gender Disparities in Biomedicine by Anika Jugovic-Spajic
Recently, physicians, public health experts, and anthropologists (among others) have pointed to a prevalence of gender, class, race, age, and ethnic bias …
Web Roundup: CRISPR Babies and Bioethics by Whitney Arey
In late November, He Jiankui, a scientist in China, announced that he had created the first “CRISPR babies,” meaning that he performed germ-line …
After and Beyond the Genome: Taking Postgenomics Seriously by Maurizio Meloni
The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge after the Genome Jenny Reardon University of Chicago Press, 2017, 304 pages. Genetics: A …
Laboratory capacity building and the open hardware movement by Louise Bezuidenhout
Through my work in African laboratories I am regularly made aware of the challenging equipment shortages faced by research laboratories in many …
Web Roundup: In the clouds by Lily Shapiro
As I’m sure many of you saw, this month started with the successful launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, giving a boost (sorry) …
Web Roundup: Grand Not-So-Unified Theory of Birth Control Side-Effects by Anika Jugovic-Spajic
Recently, a number of news outlets reported the results of a new research study on the correlation between hormonal contraceptives and breast …
Web Roundup: Gender and Health by Cinzia Greco
Nothing seems to be more self-evident than gender differences, and yet when we have to establish what these differences are, things seem …
Web Roundup: Marching for Science, which is what, exactly? by Lily Shapiro
Many of you may have marched (or chosen not to march) at last week’s March for Science. I marched with my partner …
Web Roundup: Public Health by Lily Shapiro
I assume everyone is, like me, tired of (and stressed out about) the US election, so let’s take a break from that …
Web Roundup: The Electronic Over-Soul and our Worst Selves (and Other Mishaps) by Sara M Bergstresser
The web roundup for this month is a sequel to last month’s roundup on Mind, Consciousness, and Artificial Intelligence. I will address …
Book Forum––Carlo Caduff’s The Pandemic Perhaps by Todd Meyers
Carlo Caduff’s The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger (University of California Press, 2015) is a story …
Mind, Consciousness, and Artificial Intelligence by Maria Cecilia Dedios
This month’s web roundup comes through a bit late – paradoxically- due to technical difficulties (my computer died!). Although I will be …
Web Roundup: 2015 by Lily Shapiro
As the year winds up, many publications around the web are doing “highlights of 2015”-type lists, so I thought I’d compile some …
Web Roundup: A busy month for Pharma… by Jane Roberts
This month it was hard not to pay attention to what was happening in the world of Pharma, where several cases came …
Web Roundup: Empathy in the news by Jane Roberts
The capacity of individuals to imagine another’s perspective or personal agenda, and our own ability to feel anger, despondency or frustration in …