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Responsible research and innovation: A manifesto for empirical ethics? [PDF]

, 2015
In 2013 the Nuffield Council on Bioethics launched their report Novel Neurotechnologies: Intervening in the Brain. The report, which adopts the European Commission's notion of Responsible Research and Innovation, puts forward a set of priorities to guide
Brown N, Brown N, European Commission, NCoB 2013, Owen R, Pickersgill M, Rabinow P, Rapp R   +7 more
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Digital Music Distribution: The Sociology of Online Music Streams

Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 2019
Reviewed by Raphaël Nowak, Griffith University 
Raphaël Nowak
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Defining an epidemic:The body mass index in British and American obesity research 1960-2000 [PDF]

, 2014
Between the 1970s and the mid‐1990s the body mass index (BMI) became the standard means of assessing obesity both in populations and in individuals, replacing previously diverse and contested definitions of excess body weight.
Amsterdamska, Aronowitz, Aronowitz, Bacon, Baird, Baird, Berridge, Berridge, Berridge, Berridge, Bowker, Bray, Bray, Bray, British Nutrition Foundation (BNF), Busch, Campos, Craddock, Crawford, Department of Health (DoH), Department of Health and Social Security/Medical Research Council (DHSS/MRC), Desrosieres, Epstein, Fletcher, Fye, Gaesser, Gard, Garrow, Garrow, Garrow, Garrow, Government Office for Science, Hacking, Hacking, Hautvast, Hilgartner, James, James, Jasanoff, Jasanoff, Keys, Kromhout, Kuczmarski, Kuczmarski, Kuhn, Monaghan, National Institutes of Health Panel on Obesity, O'Connell, Oddy, Office of Health Economics, Oliver, Oppenheimer, Oppenheimer, Pickersgill, Pickersgill, Pringle, Rothstein, Royal College of Physicians, Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), Sims, Smith, Timmermann, Timmermans, Timmermans, Timmermans, Tunstall-Pedoe, VanItalllie, West, WHO, WHO, World Health Organization (WHO)   +70 more
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Youth Employment Paths in a Ghanaian Rural Community [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2023
Rural youth engage in different employment activities. Due to the scarcity of literature on the employment activities and aspirations of youth in rural communities especially in Africa, the study examined the past, present and future employment of the ...
Peter Dwumah, Kofi Osei Akuoko, Eric Henry Yeboah, Nelson Gyasi-Boadu, Mary Sefa Boampong   +4 more
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Por uma sociologia crítica da ciência Towards a general Sociology of science

Sociologias, 2011
Neste artigo crítico e construtivo, defendemos que a Sociologia da Ciência, como está estabelecida, é distorcida por uma suposta filosofia idealista que estimula uma atitude acrítica em relação ao que se supõe serem fatos. Propomos uma sociologia crítica
Ian Jarvie, Joseph Agassi
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Must the Social be Reassembled? Broken Dispute between B. Latour and P. Bourdieu

Sociologija: Mintis ir Veiksmas, 2020
The article analyses the conflict between two prominent French sociologists P. Bourdieu and B. Latour. It attempts to answer a question to what extent this conflict reflects the paradigmatic break of sociology.
Arūnas Poviliūnas
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Hepatitis C cure as a ‘gathering’: Attending to the social and material relations of hepatitis C treatment

Sociology of Health and Illness, 2022
Since the advent of direct‐acting antiviral hepatitis C treatments, widespread enthusiasm about disease elimination has emerged. This article examines experiences of hepatitis C treatment and cure in this period.
A. Farrugia, Renae Fomiatti, S. Fraser, D. Moore, Michael Edwards, E. Birbilis, C. Treloar   +6 more
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Plantes transgéniques, expertise et action publique : évolution de la place et du rôle de la CGB de 1986 à 20061

Oléagineux, Corps gras, Lipides, 2007
Through the history of the Commission du Génie Biomoléculaire, we analyse the transformations of the expertise and regulation of GM crops in France since 1986.
Bonneuil Christophe, Joly Pierre-Benoît
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In the Middle of Things. Germany’s ongoing Engagement with STS

Tecnoscienza, 2011
In order to map out the German engagements with STS, this article draws some historical and conceptual connecting lines: first, the technological society, second, the sociology of everyday devices and third, the sociology of innovation.
Cornelius Schubert
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Promising Technosciences in the Economy of Attention: Why Have Pessimistic Stories of Disruption and “Artificial Intelligence” Performed so Well?

Tecnoscienza, 2023
The promises connected to emerging science and technology do not merely assist research and innovation, but are a part of it. Their diverse roles in producing hype and ensuring coordination have been extensively studied in the sociology of expectations ...
Marc Audétat
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