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Toward an Upgrade of Gaia-politics: A View from the East Asian Critical Zone 东亚关键地带视角下的盖亚政治升级

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Science Technology & Human Values Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/01622439231191602

Paul Jobin, Tzung-Wen Chen

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Furthering Ontological Pluralism, Maybe: The Strange Case of the Microbial Recordings 推进本体论多元化，也许:微生物记录的奇怪案例

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Science Technology & Human Values Pub Date : 2023-08-21 DOI: 10.1177/01622439231190897

T. Moreira

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An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence of Latour 论拉图尔的存在方式

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Science Technology & Human Values Pub Date : 2023-08-17 DOI: 10.1177/01622439231190889

C. Kelty

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How to Turn Politics Around: Things, the Earth, Ecology 如何扭转政治:事物，地球，生态

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Science Technology & Human Values Pub Date : 2023-08-03 DOI: 10.1177/01622439231190884

N. Marres

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The Cold Futures of Mouse Genetics: Modes of Strain Cryopreservation Since the 1970s. 小鼠遗传学的冷酷未来：20 世纪 70 年代以来的菌株冷冻保存模式。

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Science Technology & Human Values Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Epub Date: 2022-11-15 DOI: 10.1177/01622439221138341

Dmitriy Myelnikov, Sara Peres

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Co-producing Human and Animal Experimental Subjects: Exploring the Views of UK COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participants on Animal Testing. 人类与动物共同制造实验对象：探索英国 COVID-19 疫苗试验参与者对动物试验的看法。

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Science Technology & Human Values Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Epub Date: 2021-11-15 DOI: 10.1177/01622439211057084

Samantha Vanderslott, Alexandra Palmer, Tonia Thomas, Beth Greenhough, Arabella Stuart, John A Henry, Marcus English, Rebecca de Water Naude, Maia Patrick-Smith, Naomi Douglas, Maria Moore, Susanne H Hodgson, Katherine R W Emary, Andrew J Pollard

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引用次数: 2

One Pipeline and Two Impact Assessments: Coproduction, Legal Pluralism, and the Trans Mountain Expansion Project. 一条管道和两个影响评估:合拍片、法律多元化和跨山扩建项目。

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Science Technology & Human Values Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1177/01622439211057309

Ian G Stewart, Moira E Harding

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Making Futures by Freezing Life: Ambivalent Temporalities of Cryopreservation Practices 通过冷冻生命创造未来:冷冻保存实践的矛盾时间性

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Science Technology & Human Values Pub Date : 2023-04-27 DOI: 10.1177/01622439231170557

Veit Braun, S. Lafuente-Funes, T. Lemke, Ruzana Liburkina

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Working at the Seams of Colonial Structures: Alternative Sociotechnical Infrastructures Revealed by Hurricane Maria 在殖民地结构的接缝处工作:玛丽亚飓风揭示的替代社会技术基础设施

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Science Technology & Human Values Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/01622439211058448

F. E. Vasquez

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CORRIGENDUM to the Special Issue Titled “Reproduction in the Postgenomic Age”, Volume 47, Issue 6 “后基因组时代的生殖”特刊的更正，第47卷，第6期

IF 3.1 2区社会学

Science Technology & Human Values Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/01622439231154487

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