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Social Studies of Science

Subject Areas: History
Publisher: SAGE Publications - SAGE
ISSN: 0306-3127
SJR: 93

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Law’s artefacts: Personal rapid transit and public narratives of hitchhiking and crime

Cole, Simon A; Bertenthal, Alyse

2024 Social Studies of Science

doi:10.1177/03063127241229071 pmid:38500299

The West Virginia University (WVU) Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system was built between 1971 and 1975 in Morgantown, West Virginia to be a prototype transportation system of the future. Envisioned as a hybrid of public and automotive transportation, the fully automated cars deliver passengers...
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Therapeutic value in the time of digital brainwaves

Marathe, Megh

2024 Social Studies of Science

doi:10.1177/03063127241241032 pmid:38584390

This article examines the value of medical technology through the case of electroencephalograms (EEGs), devices used to visualize brain activity and diagnose seizures. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the article shows that EEGs are valued differently by patients and medical practitioners....
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Bohemia at the Pacific seabed: Archiving the future of deep-sea mining with the Interoceanmetal Joint Organization

Galka, Jonathan M

2024 Social Studies of Science

doi:10.1177/03063127231226423 pmid:38279692

This article uses historical and ethnographic methods to examine the primarily East-Central European Interoceanmetal Joint Organization (IOM). I ask how and why the IOM has survived as an institution since its inception in 1987, working especially with the personal archive of Vratislav Kubišta....
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Enacting biosocial complexity: Stress, epigenetic biomarkers and the tools of postgenomics

Chiapperino, Luca

2024 Social Studies of Science

doi:10.1177/03063127231222613 pmid:38214449

This article analyses attempts to enact complexity in postgenomic experimentations using the case of epigenetic research on biomarkers of psychosocial stress. Enacting complexity in this research means dissecting multiple so-called biosocial processes of health differentiation in the face of...
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Experimenting with care and cod: On document-practices, versions of care and fish as the new experimental animal

Druglitrø, Tone; Asdal, Kristin

2024 Social Studies of Science

doi:10.1177/03063127231223904 pmid:38279690

A key ambition in care studies has been to study care in practice and as practice. By turning towards practices, care studies has rendered visible and acknowledged important work that is not captured through looking at formal procedures or official and written materials, such as policy documents...
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Indigenous DNA as a metaphor: Nation-building and scientific debates on the rediscovery of Taiwanese ancestry

Tsai, Yu-Yueh

2024 Social Studies of Science

doi:10.1177/03063127241226869 pmid:38520279

In this paper, I investigate the co-production of genetic research and national politics in post-martial law Taiwan. This entails analyzing two co-produced phenomena: the nationalization of biomedicine—in which the national discourse over racial/ethnic categories and ancestral origin increasingly...
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‘Floating things’ and methodological drift: Accounting for haunted materialities in the North Pacific Ocean

De Wolff, Kim

2024 Social Studies of Science

doi:10.1177/03063127241226829 pmid:38270094

In this article I follow the mystery of millions of tons of materials washed out to sea by the March 2011 Japan tsunami: a massive wave of lost materials expected to reach North American shores that never seems to officially arrive. I bring Gordon’s conceptualization of haunting together with STS...
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Digital twins and the digital logics of biodiversity

Westerlaken, Michelle

2024 Social Studies of Science

doi:10.1177/03063127241236809 pmid:38511604

Biodiversity is a multidimensional concept that can be understood and measured in many different ways. However, the next generation of digital technologies for biodiversity monitoring currently being funded and developed fail to engage its multidimensional and relational aspects. Based on...
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The improvised expert: Staging authority at an OECD Nuclear Energy Agency workshop in Fukushima

Takahashi, Makoto

2024 Social Studies of Science

doi:10.1177/03063127241231822

In recent years, concerns about a crisis of expert authority have been expressed across the globe. Japan is no exception to this trend. Scandals surrounding the (mis)management of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster severely damaged public confidence in state institutions,...
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Intra-mediary expertise: Trans-science and expert understanding of the public

Kumaki, Hiroko

2024 Social Studies of Science

doi:10.1177/03063127241229076 pmid:38343383

What is the role of experts and their expertise in the context of trans-science, in which issues that are raised in scientific terms cannot be answered by science alone? This article examines the discourses and practices around safety of low-dose exposure to radiation in the ongoing aftermath of...

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