BiosocietiesPub Date : 2023-09-23DOI: 10.1057/s41292-023-00310-1
Charlotte Abel
{"title":"The effects of COVID-19 on imagined reproductive futures","authors":"Charlotte Abel","doi":"10.1057/s41292-023-00310-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-023-00310-1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Macro-level crises affect individual lives and behaviors. One of COVID-19’s many effects was to disrupt the way people imagined their own and their children’s’ futures or imagined reproductive futures . Using 65 interviews collected between March and July 2020 with mothers who experienced pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period at the onset of COVID-19 in the US, this study examines two elements of reproduction and futurity; first, how the pandemic exacerbated health, economic, racial, and global emergency stressors to create unique reproductive experiences and nuanced imagined reproductive futures. Second, I use Lee Edelman’s concept of reproductive futurism amidst COVID-19 to inquire whether reproduction maintains a compulsory sense of optimism amidst periods of social disruption. I find that despite the various stressors and in addition to the shared disruption of the pandemic, there remains a widespread maternal optimism about reproduction across birthing people with different intersectional social identities. Diverse imaginations of futurity are likely to impact reproductive practices and the meaning-making associated with them; in this research, I use maternal subjectivities to illustrate how narratives and experiences of reproduction are contextual, and offer a distinct avenue toward theoretical analyses of futurity.","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135966347","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}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2023-09-16DOI: 10.1057/s41292-023-00309-8
Tessa Moll, Maurizio Meloni, Ayuba Issaka
{"title":"Foetal programming meets human capital: biological plasticity, development, and the limits to the economization of life","authors":"Tessa Moll, Maurizio Meloni, Ayuba Issaka","doi":"10.1057/s41292-023-00309-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-023-00309-8","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The disciplinary integration of biology and economy is taking new forms in the postgenomic era, transforming long-standing exchanges between human biology and economics. In this article, we first describe how an emerging area of research in development and health economics has embraced, stabilized, and expanded the emerging field of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD). We map the global expansion of this literature particularly in the Global South. Via an analysis of shifting models of health in human capital, we argue that as economists draw on DOHaD theories, their increasing focus on marginalized groups in postcolonial settings produces a darker model of health deficit. Based on notions of accumulated shocks, this model questions the generalizable expansion of the economization of life and speaks to a wider and more sombre range of figures. Health models in economics reflect the double nature of biological and developmental plasticity caught between agency and passivity, change, and near-permanency.","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135306283","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}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.1057/s41292-023-00311-0
Azer Kılıç
{"title":"Medical markets for imagined futures: the framing of egg freezing on fertility clinic websites in Turkey","authors":"Azer Kılıç","doi":"10.1057/s41292-023-00311-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-023-00311-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45933519","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}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2023-08-17DOI: 10.1057/s41292-023-00307-w
P. Vlasenko
{"title":"Uncertain commodities: egg banking and value in Ukraine","authors":"P. Vlasenko","doi":"10.1057/s41292-023-00307-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-023-00307-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44574711","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}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1057/s41292-023-00306-x
Isabella M. Radhuber, Christian Haddad, Katharina Kieslich, Katharina T. Paul, Barbara Prainsack, Seliem El-Sayed, Lukas Schlogl, Wanda Spahl, Elias Weiss
{"title":"Publisher Correction: Citizenship in times of crisis: biosocial state–citizen relations during COVID-19 in Austria","authors":"Isabella M. Radhuber, Christian Haddad, Katharina Kieslich, Katharina T. Paul, Barbara Prainsack, Seliem El-Sayed, Lukas Schlogl, Wanda Spahl, Elias Weiss","doi":"10.1057/s41292-023-00306-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-023-00306-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135608971","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}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2023-06-02DOI: 10.1057/s41292-023-00305-y
C. B. Jacobsen, D. Kristensen, B. Bruun
{"title":"In whose pockets? How small Danish patient organisations balance legitimacy, representation and dependency in collaboration with public sector medical researchers and the life science industry","authors":"C. B. Jacobsen, D. Kristensen, B. Bruun","doi":"10.1057/s41292-023-00305-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-023-00305-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44909726","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}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1057/s41292-023-00303-0
Thibaut Serviant-Fine, M. Arminjon, Y. Fayet, É. Giroux
{"title":"Allostatic load: historical origins, promises and costs of a recent biosocial approach","authors":"Thibaut Serviant-Fine, M. Arminjon, Y. Fayet, É. Giroux","doi":"10.1057/s41292-023-00303-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-023-00303-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44236397","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}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2023-05-22DOI: 10.1057/s41292-023-00304-z
Isabella M Radhuber, Christian Haddad, Katharina Kieslich, Katharina T Paul, Barbara Prainsack, Seliem El-Sayed, Lukas Schlogl, Wanda Spahl, Elias Weiss
{"title":"Citizenship in times of crisis: biosocial state-citizen relations during COVID-19 in Austria.","authors":"Isabella M Radhuber, Christian Haddad, Katharina Kieslich, Katharina T Paul, Barbara Prainsack, Seliem El-Sayed, Lukas Schlogl, Wanda Spahl, Elias Weiss","doi":"10.1057/s41292-023-00304-z","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41292-023-00304-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing upon 152 in-depth qualitative interviews with residents in Austria carried out in the first year of the pandemic, this article discusses how people's experiences with COVID-19 policies reflect and reshape state-citizen relations. Coinciding with a significant government crisis, the first year of COVID-19 in Austria saw pandemic measures justified with reference to a biological, often medical understanding of health that framed disease prevention in terms of transmission reduction, often with reference to metrics such as hospitalisation rates, etc. Instead of using this biomedical frame, our interviewees, however, drew attention to biopsychosocial dimensions of the crisis and problematised the entanglements between economy and health. We call this the emergence of a <i>biosocial</i> notion of citizenship that is attentive to psychological, social and economic dimensions of health. Insights into the biosocial nature of pandemic citizenship open a window of opportunity for addressing long-standing social injustices.</p>","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":" ","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10201040/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9717168","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}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1057/s41292-023-00301-2
Anna Wexler, Rebekah Choi, Alex Pearlman, Lisa M Rasmussen
{"title":"Navigating biosafety concerns within COVID-19 do-it-yourself (DIY) science: an ethnographic and interview study.","authors":"Anna Wexler, Rebekah Choi, Alex Pearlman, Lisa M Rasmussen","doi":"10.1057/s41292-023-00301-2","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41292-023-00301-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Non-establishment or do-it-yourself (DIY) science involves individuals who may not have formal training conducting experiments outside of institutional settings. While prior scholarship has examined the motivations and values of those involved in the subset of DIY science known as \"DIY biology,\" little research has addressed how these individuals navigate ethical issues in practice. The present study therefore aimed to understand how DIY biologists identify, approach, and resolve one particular ethical issue-biosafety-in their work. We conducted a digital ethnography of Just One Giant Lab (JOGL), the primary hub for DIY biology during the COVID-19 pandemic, and subsequently conducted interviews with individuals involved with JOGL. We found that JOGL was the first global DIY biology initiative to create a Biosafety Advisory Board and develop formal biosafety guidelines that applied to different groups in multiple locations. There was disagreement, however, regarding whether the Board should have an advisory role or provide mandatory oversight. We found that JOGL practiced ethical gatekeeping of projects that fell outside the limits defined by the Board. Our findings show that the DIY biology community recognized biosafety issues and tried to build infrastructure to facilitate the safe conduct of research.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41292-023-00301-2.</p>","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":" ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10042665/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9717169","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}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1057/s41292-023-00300-3
Riikka Homanen, Mianna Meskus
{"title":"Population anxieties in constituting Nordic welfare state futures: affective biopolitics in the age of environmental crises","authors":"Riikka Homanen, Mianna Meskus","doi":"10.1057/s41292-023-00300-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-023-00300-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-27"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48310832","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}