Amongst the UK’s current Conservative Government, rhetorically invoking the body politic is common practice. For example, in 2019 Number 10 Special Advisor …
According to accepted wisdom and textbooks, “metabolism” is a nineteenth-century term and concept, established at the confluence of organic chemistry, cell biology, …
Labor interventions are largely driven by standards set in the 1950s. A growing body of research suggests it may be time for …
Editor: The following is an introduction to a new Japanese translation of The body multiple. It can be purchased through Suiseisha publishers, as part …
Nomsa, her sixteen month old son Nathi and I met early one morning at the entrance to the open cast mine in …
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Helen Verran, a historian and philosopher of science who …
Jeffrey Williams wrote in his excellent essay Smart that academics’ hands are remarkable for their contrast with working-class hands: My father has …
Is our cultural antipathy toward pregnancy and children creating a health hazard? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
I was reading through my field notebooks lately and I came across a little ethnographic snippet of description. It is a description of a …