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The Bio-Objectification of Umbilical Cord Blood: Socio-Economic and Epistemic Implications of Biobanking

open access: yesTecnoscienza, 2014
In the current biomedical literature Umbilical Cord Blood (UCB) is considered a valid source of hematopoietic stem cells for hemopoiesis reconstitution. The acknowledgment of the potential of UCB for transplants prompted the transformation of this human ...
Lorenzo Beltrame
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Science, Technology and Democracy on the STS Agenda: Review Article

open access: yesPrometheus, 1998
Irwin's ‘Citizen Science’ and Sclove's ‘Technology and Democracy’ represent two important recent attempts, from different precincts of the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), to explore the democratization of science and technology.
David Mercer
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An Overview of the Technology Element in STS Education and Science Teaching

open access: yesAmazônia, 2021
The Science, Technology and Society (STS) field of studies has been showing, in recent years, obstacles to implementing the acronym STS as whole in the teaching in Science, especially the second element: Technology (T).
Dioginys Cesar Lima   +1 more
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Across Fields: Sound, art and technology from an electromechanical perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article follows electromechanical technologies through different contexts of electronic and experimental music, sound art and kinetic art as well as through parts of their industrial development and application.
Pigott, Jon
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The Floating Ampersand: STS Past and STS to Come

open access: yesEngaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2016
STS has become a discipline in the sense that it offers new ways to read and make sense of the world. It remains an amalgam, however, of two linked yet separate lines of inquiry, both abbreviated as STS.
Sheila Jasanoff
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Taking roles in interdisciplinary collaborations: Reflections on working in post-ELSI spaces in the UK synthetic biology community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Based on criticism of the “ethical, legal and social implications” (ELSI) paradigm, researchers in science and technology studies (STS) have begun to create and move into “post-ELSI” spaces.
Balmert, A.   +9 more
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La météorologie appliquée à la lutte contre les incendies de forêt

open access: yesRevue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2014
The article examines how meteorological forecasts reconfigure the organization of risk management with the particular case of wild forest fire fighting. To what extent are forecasts “useful” and “adapted” to foresters’ operational work?
Silvia Bruzzone
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“I Prefer the Map”

open access: yesEngaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2021
In the 2020 Prague Virtual Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Sharon Traweek was awarded the society’s John D. Bernal Prize jointly with Langdon Winner.
Sharon Traweek
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Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Constructivism has become the overarching scientific paradigm in the social study of science and technology (STS). The notion that scientific facts and technological artefacts result from processes of social construction is the major scientific ...
Böschen, Stefan   +4 more
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Ontological imagination: transcending methodological solipsism and the promise of interdisciplinary studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This text is a presentation of the notion of ontological imagination. It constitutes an attempt to merge two traditions: critical sociology and science and technology studies - STS.
Nowak, Andrzej W.
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