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Research participants as 'pioneers'? Exploring how neurotechnology research is adapting the rhetoric of scientific risk-taking, exploration and trailblazing. 研究参与者是“先锋”？探索神经技术研究如何适应科学冒险、探索和开拓的修辞。

IF 2.2 3区哲学

Science As Culture Pub Date : 2026-05-27 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2026.2673139

Andrew Ivan Brown, Sara Goering, Eran Klein

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Orientation work: caring for the relevance of research to social-environmental problems. 定向工作：关注研究与社会环境问题的相关性。

IF 2.4 3区哲学

Science As Culture Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2025.2531747

Ruth Falkenberg, Lisa Sigl, Maximilian Fochler

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Bodies sensing air pollution in asthma research. 哮喘研究中感知空气污染的身体。

IF 2.4 3区哲学

Science As Culture Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2025.2491342

Emma Garnett

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Reading meatphors in DNA (and RNA): a bio-rhetorical view of genetic text metaphors 解读 DNA（和 RNA）中的肉蚜：从生物修辞学角度看基因文本隐喻

IF 2.6 3区哲学

Science As Culture Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2024.2393104

Erika Szymanski