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'Nonetheless biosocial': experiences and embodied knowledge of birth cohort participants in the UK and Brazil. “尽管如此，生物社会”：英国和巴西出生队列参与者的经验和具体知识。

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Biosocieties Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-11 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-024-00344-z

Rosie Mathers, Sahra Gibbon, Taylor Riley, Tatiane Muniz

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Styles of thought in healthcare governance: A situational analysis of English PrEP discourse 2016-2020. 医疗保健治理中的思维方式：2016-2020年英语PrEP话语的情境分析

IF 1.8 4区医学

Biosocieties Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-13 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-025-00351-8

Adam Christianson

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Extra-institutional science: DIY biologists' democratization of scientific practices and spaces. 机构外科学：DIY生物学家对科学实践和空间的民主化。

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Biosocieties Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-024-00347-w

Anna Verena Eireiner

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‘Our biology is listening’: biomarkers as molecular vestiges of early life and the production of positive childhood experiences in behavioral epigenetics 我们的生物学在倾听"：作为早期生活分子遗迹的生物标志物与行为表观遗传学中积极童年经历的产生

IF 1.6 4区医学

Biosocieties Pub Date : 2024-08-31 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-024-00337-y

Robbin Jeffries Hein, Martine Lappé, Fionna Francis Fahey

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Anticipating and suspending: the chronopolitics of cryopreservation 预期与暂停：低温保存的时间政治学

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Biosocieties Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-024-00332-3

Thomas Lemke

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The politics of suspension suspended: the curious case of a cryopreserved cell product 悬浮政治：冷冻保存细胞产品的奇特案例

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Biosocieties Pub Date : 2024-07-09 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-024-00328-z

Ruzana Liburkina

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What is the cure for absolute infertility? Biomedicalisation and routinisation of surrogacy and uterus transplantation in Nordic medical journals 如何治疗绝对不孕症？北欧医学期刊中代孕和子宫移植的生物医学化和常规化

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Biosocieties Pub Date : 2024-07-09 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-024-00333-2

Lise Eriksson

{"title":"What is the cure for absolute infertility? Biomedicalisation and routinisation of surrogacy and uterus transplantation in Nordic medical journals","authors":"Lise Eriksson","doi":"10.1057/s41292-024-00333-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-024-00333-2","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates 20 years of discursive struggles in Nordic medical journals around the process of legitimating and routinising gestational surrogacy and uterus transplantation in Finland and Sweden. The comparative analysis through critical discourse analysis suggests that influential health care professionals have contributed to different levels of legal and cultural adaptation of the methods, prioritising non-commercial gestational surrogacy in Finland and uterus transplantation in Sweden. The article identifies central discursive turning points in the medical journal discussions by interpreting them against the background of medical and policy developments in Finland and Sweden during the analysed twenty-year period. Legitimation and routinisation of surrogacy and uterus transplantation were developed through biomedicalisation by representing them as infertility treatments and emphasising the relational dynamics between donors and recipients—a connection that in the Nordic context is often based on kinship or close relationships. The diagnosis of absolute uterine factor infertility was central to representing women as on the boundary between fertile and infertile, as they may have functioning ovaries. Through the biomedicalised rhetoric of equal opportunities for biogenetic motherhood, the diagnosed women’s ambiguous reproductive status was used to legitimise the two methods as cures for absolute infertility, thereby reinforcing hegemonic family and kinship norms.","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141566529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From brain “scar” to “bat shit crazy”: negotiating the madness of sexual violence discourse 从脑部 "疤痕 "到 "蝙蝠屎一样的疯狂"：就性暴力话语的疯狂进行谈判

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Biosocieties Pub Date : 2024-07-09 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-024-00334-1

Emma Yapp

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Cell freezing and the biology of inexorability: on cryoprotectants and chemical time 细胞冷冻与不可逆转的生物学：关于低温保护剂和化学时间

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Biosocieties Pub Date : 2024-07-07 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-024-00331-4

Hannah Landecker

{"title":"Cell freezing and the biology of inexorability: on cryoprotectants and chemical time","authors":"Hannah Landecker","doi":"10.1057/s41292-024-00331-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-024-00331-4","url":null,"abstract":"What can’t freezing hold still? This article surveys the history of substances used to protect cells and organisms from freezing damage, known as cryoprotectants. Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) has since 1959 been the most widely used of these agents in cryopreservation. Here, its evolution from pulp and paper waste byproduct to wonder drug to all-but-invisible routine element of freezing protocols is used to trace the direct arc from protection to toxicity in theories of how and why cryoprotectants work, from the 1960s to today. The power of these agents to simultaneously protect and degrade is shown to reside in manipulation of chemical time via hydrogen bonding and electron exchange, thereby reframing freezing as a highly active and transformational process. Countering long-held assumptions about cryopreservation as an operation of stasis after which the thawed entity is the same as it was before, this article details recent demonstrations of effects of cryoprotectant exposure that are nonlethal but nonetheless profoundly impactful within scientific and therapeutic practices that depend on freezing infrastructures. Understanding the operationalization of chemical time in the case of cryoprotectants is broadly relevant to other modern technologies dedicated to shifting how material things exist and persist in human historical time.","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141566531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The repro-paradox of sustainable reproduction—debating demographic anxieties in the Danish media (2010–2022) 可持续再生产的悖论--丹麦媒体对人口焦虑的辩论（2010-2022 年）

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Biosocieties Pub Date : 2024-06-22 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-024-00330-5

Anna Sofie Bach, Michala Hvidt Breengaard

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