Intervals of confidence: Uncertain accounts of global hungerSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 10 - Trang 229-246 - 2015
Emily Yates-Doerr
Global health policy experts tend to organize hunger through scales of ‘the individual’, ‘the community’ and ‘the global’. This organization configures hunger as a discrete, measurable object to be scaled up or down with mathematical certainty. This article offers a counter to this approach, using ethnographic cases to illustrate how the calculated referent of ‘hunger’ does not hold stable. In the...... hiện toàn bộ
Cancer in the tropics: geographical pathology and the formation of cancer epidemiologySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 14 - Trang 512-528 - 2019
Lucas M. Mueller
Researchers have long been concerned with cancer in what has been called the tropics, developing world, and low- and middle-income countries. Global health advocates' recent calls to attend to an emergent cancer epidemic in these regions were only the latest effort in this long history. Researchers, known as geographical pathologists, sought to determine the etiologies of cancer and other non-infe...... hiện toàn bộ
Neuroethics of Cognitive EnhancementSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 1 - Trang 113-123 - 2006
Danielle C. Turner, Barbara J. Sahakian
The prospect of being able to take safe and effective drugs to improve mental functioning is becoming a reality. With the potential for widespread use of cognitive enhancers by large sectors of the population, this article discusses the rationale behind the development of these drugs and how society might benefit from them. Important ethical questions and scenarios are also raised. Scientists are ...... hiện toàn bộ
Citizen NeuroethicsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 1 - Trang 366-368 - 2006
Joseph Dumit
From the pergonal project to Kadimastem: A genealogy of Israel’s reproductive-industrial complexSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 12 - Trang 282-306 - 2017
Sigrid Vertommen
In the Israeli ‘start-up nation’ biotechnology has emerged as one of the most thriving knowledge-intensive industries. Particularly the med-tech and repro-tech sector are widely regarded as world class in their ability to develop experimental therapies and medicines based on topnotch ‘pioneering’ biomedical research. These developments have rightly been attributed to the neoliberal turn of the lat...... hiện toàn bộ
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 5 - Trang 1-1 - 2010
Adele E Clarke, Nikolas Rose, Ilina Singh