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Data roles: youth mental health outcome measures and the young people who defy them. 数据作用：青少年心理健康结果措施和无视这些措施的年轻人。

IF 1.2 4区医学

Biosocieties Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-18 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-025-00366-1

Rosie Jones McVey

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The nearness of the state: substitution practices at the ragged ends of life in the U.S. 国家的临近：美国老年人的替代做法

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Biosocieties Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-025-00365-2

Janelle S Taylor, Elizabeth K Vig

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Microbial eccentricity: more-than-human creativity in anthropoeccentric worlds. 微生物的怪癖：在人类怪癖的世界里超越人类的创造力。

IF 1.2 4区医学

Biosocieties Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-22 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-025-00362-5

Valentina Marcheselli

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Intergenerational narratives of toxicity: understanding heterogeneity and care in a polluted steeltown (Taranto, Italy). 毒性的代际叙述：理解污染钢铁城的异质性和护理（意大利塔兰托）。

IF 1.8 4区医学

Biosocieties Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-025-00364-3

Raffaele Ippolito, Carmen Sale, Maaret Jokela-Pansini

{"title":"Intergenerational narratives of toxicity: understanding heterogeneity and care in a polluted steeltown (Taranto, Italy).","authors":"Raffaele Ippolito, Carmen Sale, Maaret Jokela-Pansini","doi":"10.1057/s41292-025-00364-3","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41292-025-00364-3","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines environmental narratives amidst chronic industrial pollution across three generations in Taranto, Italy. Drawing on ethnographic research with residents positioned in different historical periods, we show how each generation's understanding of toxicity is intimately tied to shifting economic conditions, political interventions, and embodied experiences in Taranto's polluted landscape. The first generation, closely tied to state-led industrial development, recalls their experience of pride and modernity. The second generation is faced with growing scientific evidence on industrial pollution and institutional scrutiny: they make sense of toxicity by questioning the promise of prosperity that the industrial development and resulting modernity offered. The youngest generation, who grew amid persistent environmental degradation, creates a narrative of pollution as a given dimension of everyday life and one that calls forth community cohesion. By highlighting these intergenerational narratives and their ongoing renegotiations, we shed light on how wellbeing and care are assembled, reworked, and contested over time. In doing so, this paper contributes to more heterogeneous understandings of environmental justice and the ways communities live through, and make sense of, industrial harm.","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"20 4","pages":"660-682"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12620277/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145551371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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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。

IF 1.3 4区医学

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

{"title":"Styles of thought in healthcare governance: A situational analysis of English PrEP discourse 2016-2020.","authors":"Adam Christianson","doi":"10.1057/s41292-025-00351-8","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41292-025-00351-8","url":null,"abstract":"Attending to competing styles of thought in healthcare controversies may be helpful to critical health scholarship. This article reexamines the debate over the introduction of a new HIV prevention technology in England as a tension between epidemiological and molecular style of thoughts. I argue English HIV services were organised according to an epidemiological style of thought. The introduction of biomedical pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to the health system brought this rationality into question in ways the English health system was ill-prepared to manage. A situational analysis of English PrEP discourse in the lead up and following NHS-England's 'U-turn' on PrEP illustrates a split along epidemiologically and biomedically informed styles of thought. These networks have their dedicated administrators, experts, activists and ways of thinking about their target population and preferred organisation of HIV services. Though they often collaborate, these two groups have distinct moral and political agendas that relate to their style of thinking. This analysis further nuances existing critical interpretations of the PrEP controversy in England. Beyond England, this debate suggests a potential departure from the conventional biopolitical subject and rationality of advanced liberalism.","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"20 3","pages":"520-550"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12398422/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144973759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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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

{"title":"Extra-institutional science: DIY biologists' democratization of scientific practices and spaces.","authors":"Anna Verena Eireiner","doi":"10.1057/s41292-024-00347-w","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41292-024-00347-w","url":null,"abstract":"DIY biology, or Do-It-Yourself biology, refers to a movement where individuals and communities establish laboratories outside traditional academic and industrial settings-such as in garages, kitchens, or community spaces. DIY biologists experiment with gene-editing technologies like CRISPR, cultivate glow-in-the-dark plants, and engineering colorful fungi. This practice challenges established norms in research, advocating for decentralized and community-driven approaches to scientific inquiry and innovation. DIY biologists are often trained scientists who choose to conduct their research in community or home laboratories. The DIY biology movement highlights that science's boundaries are flexible and sometimes ambiguous (Gieryn in Am Sociol Rev 48:781-795, 1983). By operating outside traditional research institutions, DIY biologists challenge established authority, hierarchies, funding structures, and proprietary regimes. They create a distinct identity beyond the increasingly neoliberalized institutional spheres of modern knowledge production, showcasing alternative ways to pursue science. I theorize DIY biology as 'extra-institutional science' due to its emergence outside conventional laboratories of industry and academia. This research draws on empirical data from interviews with DIY biologists and the 2021 DIY Biology Community Survey.","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"20 3","pages":"419-448"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12398421/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144973657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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When sociality fails to produce solidarity: environmental NGOs and the politics of public engagement in contemporary China. 当社会性无法产生团结：当代中国的环保非政府组织与公众参与政治。

IF 1.8 4区医学

Biosocieties Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-05 DOI: 10.1057/s41292-025-00358-1

Loretta Ieng Tak Lou, Anna Lisa Lora-Wainwright

{"title":"When sociality fails to produce solidarity: environmental NGOs and the politics of public engagement in contemporary China.","authors":"Loretta Ieng Tak Lou, Anna Lisa Lora-Wainwright","doi":"10.1057/s41292-025-00358-1","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41292-025-00358-1","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the potentials and limitations of the concept of \"chemosociality\" (Shapiro and Kirksey, Cultural Anthropology 32:481-493, 2017) through a case study of Emerald, an environmental NGO addressing pollution in China's chemical industry. Based on fieldwork and online research conducted since 2016, the article explores how chemosociality provides a lens to move beyond binary views of a homogeneous frontline community battling against toxic industries. However, it argues that chemosociality alone is insufficient to account for the unevenness of community engagement in environmental advocacy. Drawing on Bradley's concept of biosolidarity (Bradley, Anthropology & Medicine 28:543-557, 2021), the article introduces chemosolidarity and ecosolidarity to highlight Emerald's efforts to foster public participation. While Emerald's attempts to cultivate chemosolidarity were unsuccessful, they nurtured ecosolidarity, grounded in a shared appreciation of nature. This example underscores the need to differentiate between sociality and solidarity and to pay attention to affective rather than effective participation to gain a more nuanced understanding of environmental justice and the complexities of toxicity and environmental advocacy.","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"20 4","pages":"683-703"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12620278/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145551476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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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

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

Robbin Jeffries Hein, Martine Lappé, Fionna Francis Fahey

{"title":"‘Our biology is listening’: biomarkers as molecular vestiges of early life and the production of positive childhood experiences in behavioral epigenetics","authors":"Robbin Jeffries Hein, Martine Lappé, Fionna Francis Fahey","doi":"10.1057/s41292-024-00337-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-024-00337-y","url":null,"abstract":"The sciences of environmental epigenetics and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease have become central in efforts to understand how early life experiences impact health across the life course. This paper draws on interviews with epigenetic scientists and laboratory observations in the United States and Canada to show how scientists conceptualize epigenetic biomarkers as molecular vestiges of early life and the consequences this has for postgenomic approaches to health, risk, and intervention. We argue that this process demarcates early life as the optimal time to study and intervene in health and positions biomarkers as conceptual and methodological tools that scientists mobilize to reimagine early life environments. These environments include Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs), which reflect an emergent and increasingly prominent epistemic object in behavioral epigenetics. Though distinct from widespread research on Early Life Adversity, we show how PCEs continue to essentialize experience in gendered and individualized ways. Further, this paper suggests that focusing on biomarkers as molecular vestiges of early life allows scientists to create stability despite ongoing epistemological and biological unknowns in epigenetics and DOHaD. Our findings contribute new perspectives to social studies of epigenetics, biomarkers, and the production of novel epistemic objects in postgenomic knowledge practices.","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142204079","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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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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