Rethinking prevention: Shifting conceptualizations of evidence and intervention in South Africa’s AIDS epidemicSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 13 - Trang 148-169 - 2017
Manjari Mahajan
In recent years, statements about the ‘end of AIDS’ and an ‘AIDS-free world’
have dominated headlines about the epidemic. This contemporary moment of
extraordinary optimism has been prompted in significant part by developments in
the field of HIV prevention. New approaches to prevention include techniques
that are markedly different from older strategies; new prevention techniques are
targeted and... hiện toàn bộ
What Does Synthetic Biology Have to Do with Biology?Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 4 - Trang 291-302 - 2009
Evelyn Fox Keller
This article examines the historical roots of synthetic biology, highlighting
the multiple meanings and understandings of the term. Synthetic biology as it is
used today refers to an especially wide range of endeavors, embodying an equally
wide range of aims, and having correspondingly various relations to the
activities generally included in the discipline of biology. To address the
question of w... hiện toàn bộ
Therapeutic governmentality and biopower in a Canadian mental health courtSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 11 - Trang 240-261 - 2015
Anne Nordberg
Mental health courts (MHCs) are a response to the structural violence
experienced by people with severe mental illness (SMI) involved in the criminal
justice system. My ethnographic research of an MHC in urban Canada serves as the
foundation for a discussion of court processes that are an example of biopower.
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how strategies for intervention in
the name... hiện toàn bộ
The FDA’s standard-making process for medical digital health technologies: co-producing technological and organizational innovationSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 17 - Trang 549-576 - 2021
Elisa Lievevrouw, Luca Marelli, Ine Van Hoyweghen
As digital health technologies (DHT) have been embraced as a ‘panacea’ for
health care systems, they have evolved from a buzzword into a high priority
objective for health policy across the globe. In the realm of quality and safety
standards for medical devices, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has
been a frontrunner in adapting its regulatory framework to DHT. However, despite
the utmost... hiện toàn bộ
The social life of HIV care: On the making of ‘care beyond the virus’Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 14 - Trang 321-344 - 2018
Tim Rhodes, Siri Egede, Pippa Grenfell, Sara Paparini, Cameron Duff
Treating care as an effect of material implementations, we use qualitative
interviews with people living with HIV in London, most of whom are migrants, to
explore care practices linked to clinical treatment delivered as part of the
‘cascade of HIV care’. We consider how HIV care is done, and what HIV care does,
drawing on assemblage theory. We ask how is care affected by the situations in
which it... hiện toàn bộ
Informed Consent in Forensic DNA Databases: Volunteering, Constructions of Risk and Identity CategorizationSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2009
Helena Machado, Susana Silva
In this article we aim to expand the traditional ethical issues related to the
use and storage of genetic information in forensic DNA databases by exploring
the Portuguese practices of informed consent in the context of DNA sample
collection for forensic processing. This article focuses on three interrelated
domains: the practice of volunteering to contribute to the Portuguese forensic
DNA databas... hiện toàn bộ