BiosocietiesPub Date : 2022-01-01Epub Date: 2021-08-19DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00240-w
Victoria Boydell, Katharine Dow
{"title":"Adjusting the analytical aperture: propositions for an integrated approach to the social study of reproductive technologies.","authors":"Victoria Boydell, Katharine Dow","doi":"10.1057/s41292-021-00240-w","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41292-021-00240-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The ever-expanding availability of reproductive technologies, the continued roll-out of 'family planning' and maternity services across low- and middle-income settings and the rapid development of the fertility industry mean that it is more likely than ever that individuals, especially women and gender non-conforming people, will engage with more than one RT at some point in their life. These multiple engagements with RTs will affect users' expectations and uptake, as well as the technologies' availability, commercial success, ethical status and social meanings. We argue that an integrated approach to the study of RTs and their users not only makes for better research, but also more politically conscious research, which questions some of the ideological precepts that have led to reproduction being parcelled out into biomedical specialisations and a disproportionate focus on particular forms of reproduction in particular disciplines within public health and social science research. We offer this article as part of a wider movement in the study of reproduction and reproductive technologies, which takes inspiration from the reproductive justice framework to address forms of exclusion, discrimination and stratification that are perpetuated in the development and application of reproductive technologies <i>and</i> the ways in which they are studied and theorised.</p>","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"17 4","pages":"732-757"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8374034/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10275923","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 : 2022-01-01Epub Date: 2021-05-05DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00231-x
Christopher James Lawless
{"title":"The evolution, devolution and distribution of UK Biometric Imaginaries.","authors":"Christopher James Lawless","doi":"10.1057/s41292-021-00231-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00231-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article critically examines UK biometric policymaking by charting the bodies identified by the 2018 Home Office Biometric Strategy as playing key roles in the oversight of biometric data used in law enforcement and other related functions. The article argues that oversight actors are embedded in biometric imaginaries promoted by the UK Home Office and the devolved Scottish administration. By mapping oversight of UK biometrics policy together with developments in Scotland, the article challenges sociotechnical imaginaries studies which assume the power of national governments to project dominant, cohesive and instrumental visions. The article peels away that image to reveal UK biometric policy as located within a patchwork in which embedded commissioners, regulators and advisors challenge biometric imaginaries through interpretive flexibility and standpoint. By identifying technical, operational, legislative and ethical issues, these actors challenge the UK government imaginary and act as channels of critique between it and wider stakeholder communities. The article further challenges assumptions concerning the cohesion of national imaginaries by highlighting a diverging approach to biometric governance in Scotland. The article uses these observations to sketch a means to further characterise the notion of the biometric imaginary and to address biometric policymaking more widely.</p>","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"17 3","pages":"506-526"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8097123/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38965171","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 : 2022-01-01Epub Date: 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00237-5
Eva Hilberg
{"title":"Molecular sovereignties: patients, genomes, and the enduring <i>biocoloniality</i> of intellectual property.","authors":"Eva Hilberg","doi":"10.1057/s41292-021-00237-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00237-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Monoclonal antibodies are revolutionizing cancer treatments, but come at an increasingly problematic price for health services worldwide. This leads to pressing demands for access, as in the case of <i>Kadcyla.</i> In 2015, patients in the United Kingdom invoked the sovereign rights of the Crown in order to demand access to this expensive yet potentially life-saving medicine that had prior been de-listed due to price. This article interprets this campaign as an act of sovereign reassertion against a fundamental exclusion, which, however, ultimately fails to challenge the concrete mechanism enabling this exclusion-intellectual property (IP). By connecting this example to other declarations of molecular sovereignty, the article argues that the use of sovereignty can perpetuate further exclusion. Drawing on the notion of <i>biocoloniality</i> (Schwartz-Marín and Restrepo 2013) it points out that the intellectual property regime contains a deeply embedded fiction of the world as <i>terra nullius</i>, a blank uninhabited canvas ripe for discovery and appropriation. This decontextualised vision of life as property works to exclude populations and patients from playing a significant role in determining the use of technologies and treatments. Instead of countering this fundamental exclusion, the concept of sovereignty further entrenches this assumption and merely contests the assignation of this property.</p>","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":" ","pages":"695-712"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8254056/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39173942","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 : 2021-11-24DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00243-7
L. Sharp
{"title":"Primate nation: the (after)lives of iconic creatures in American space science","authors":"L. Sharp","doi":"10.1057/s41292-021-00243-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00243-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48935694","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 : 2021-11-22DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00264-2
Z. Sheikh, Ayo Wahlberg
{"title":"More than sample providers: how genetic researchers in Pakistan mobilized a prenatal diagnostic service for thalassemia","authors":"Z. Sheikh, Ayo Wahlberg","doi":"10.1057/s41292-021-00264-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00264-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"18 1","pages":"197-217"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48350055","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 : 2021-11-05DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00263-3
Lindsay A. Smith, Vivette García-Deister
{"title":"Genetic syncretism: Latin American forensics and global indigenous organizing","authors":"Lindsay A. Smith, Vivette García-Deister","doi":"10.1057/s41292-021-00263-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00263-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"16 1","pages":"447 - 469"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49262609","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 : 2021-10-30DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00256-2
Ulrika Dahl, R. Andreassen
{"title":"Donors we choose: race, nation and the biopolitics of (queer) assisted reproduction in Scandinavia","authors":"Ulrika Dahl, R. Andreassen","doi":"10.1057/s41292-021-00256-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00256-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"18 1","pages":"79-101"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47394640","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 : 2021-10-27DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00253-5
T. Ha, Mohammad Khamsya Bin Khidzer
{"title":"Mapping ‘bio geo-body’ of Southeast Asia: strategic differentiation and identification of ethnic identity in Vietnam and Singapore","authors":"T. Ha, Mohammad Khamsya Bin Khidzer","doi":"10.1057/s41292-021-00253-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00253-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"16 1","pages":"530 - 552"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41571317","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 : 2021-10-27DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00246-4
Irene van Oorschot, A. M’charek
{"title":"Keeping race at bay: familial DNA research, the ‘Turkish Community,’ and the pragmatics of multiple collectives in investigative practice","authors":"Irene van Oorschot, A. M’charek","doi":"10.1057/s41292-021-00246-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00246-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"16 1","pages":"553 - 573"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47926589","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}