{"title":"Cryovalues beyond High Expectations: Endurance and the Construction of Value in Cord Blood Banking","authors":"Ruzana Liburkina","doi":"10.1177/01622439221108229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439221108229","url":null,"abstract":"Cryopreservation attracts attention as a practice grounded in high expectations: current life is suspended for future use—to generate life, to save life, and to resurrect life. But what happens when high expectations in cryobanking give way to looming uselessness and the risk of failure? Based on ethnographic insights into the case of umbilical cord blood (CB) banking in Germany, this contribution investigates the liminal state of “non-failure.” Averting failure amid a lack of success in this field requires putting effort into the construction of value. The resulting practices and dynamics overflow generic stories of commercialization and instrumentalization of biological material and are best grasped as an expanded version of the recently coined notion of “cryovalue.” The long-term availability of cryopreserved CB facilitates the steady yield of social and economic capital beyond and after promise. Moreover, the value construction is reoriented from CB itself toward the sociotechnical cryo-arrangements in which it is embedded. In exemplifying how it expands the understanding of the diversity of valuation and valorization practices, continuities, and economic endurance in cryoeconomies and bioeconomies, the paper advocates the study of their ambivalent and allegedly uneventful sites.","PeriodicalId":48083,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology & Human Values","volume":"107 1","pages":"777 - 804"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73698103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Reproduction of Shame: Pregnancy, Nutrition and Body Weight in the Translation of Developmental Origins of Adult Disease","authors":"V. Moore, M. Warin","doi":"10.1177/01622439221108239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439221108239","url":null,"abstract":"Developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) and epigenetics have expanded understanding of how the environment affects the health of women before and during pregnancy—with lifelong health consequences for the fetus. This has translated to a narrow focus on women’s lifestyle during pregnancy, especially for women classified as obese. In this study, we show that psychosocial harms such as distress or shame felt by pregnant women are rarely countenanced in these endeavors. To demonstrate this, we examine published documents about a large set of trials of lifestyle interventions united through an international consortium. Yet there is now a literature in which pregnant women with large bodies report feeling humiliated and a wider literature on the stigma of obesity. We argue that shame is produced and reproduced through the discursive and material knowledge-making scientific practices of DOHaD translation. Interventions that intensify the shame of large body size in pregnancy may be stressful, and neurophysiological stress pathways are well-known within DOHaD to have consequences for fetal development, so these interventions potentially undermine the very processes they set out to protect. A feminist response may protect women from shame and redirect attention to the social and structural determinants of health.","PeriodicalId":48083,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology & Human Values","volume":"20 1","pages":"1277 - 1301"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83292870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transitions, Expansions, Engagements: Science, Technology, & Human Values between 2002 and 2007","authors":"U. Felt","doi":"10.1177/01622439221102987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439221102987","url":null,"abstract":"Anniversaries stir up memories. The fiftieth anniversary of Science, Technology, & Human Values has brought up some personal recollections that I would like to share with you. Writing this reflection takes me back exactly two decades to when I took over the editorship of Science, Technology, & Human Values for a five-year term. This period would become one of so many transitions for the journal, more than I ever imagined when I took over the task; it was the beginning of both a significant expansion and a great deal of introspection about what it means to be the journal of the simultaneously fast-growing scholarly association, the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).","PeriodicalId":48083,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology & Human Values","volume":"54 1","pages":"650 - 655"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76470306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transitions: Science, Technology, & Human Values in 1986 and Onward","authors":"S. Cozzens","doi":"10.1177/01622439221102990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439221102990","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48083,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology & Human Values","volume":"1 1","pages":"647 - 649"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87904870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Science, Technology, & Human Values at Fifty: A Deserter Reports","authors":"D. Chubin","doi":"10.1177/01622439221102988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439221102988","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48083,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology & Human Values","volume":"26 1","pages":"640 - 643"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78456755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Neale, Courtney Addison, K. Lancaster, M. Kearnes
{"title":"A Meeting Point for STS Interventions and Conversations","authors":"T. Neale, Courtney Addison, K. Lancaster, M. Kearnes","doi":"10.1177/01622439221102994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439221102994","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48083,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology & Human Values","volume":"64 1","pages":"664 - 669"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75637409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editing as a Vocation","authors":"E. Hackett","doi":"10.1177/01622439221102991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439221102991","url":null,"abstract":"I wandered unwittingly into what would become the field of STS in fall 1969, the first semester of my freshman year at Colgate University. Intending to be a science major, I was allowed to replace the laboratory science distribution requirement with a course about “science as a human activity,” taught by Professor Frederick Weyter (1969) of the biology department. The course was inspired by Professor Weyter’s recent sabbatical experience at Harvard University, where he encountered the nascent “science, technology, and society” program founded there by Gerald Holton, Emmanuel Mesthene, and others. The STS Program’s newsletter, edited by Vivien Shelanski, is one of the tributaries that became Science, Technology, & Human Values (ST&HV).","PeriodicalId":48083,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology & Human Values","volume":"15 1","pages":"658 - 663"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83326327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Science, Technology, & Human Values at Fifty","authors":"E. Hackett","doi":"10.1177/01622439221102995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439221102995","url":null,"abstract":"Alfred North Whitehead got this one wrong: a field that forgets its founders risks becoming misguided and lost. By remembering its founders, a field may use them to take bearings, measure progress, and chart the course ahead. The history of science and technology has taught us that founding (and inventing or discovering) is not the act of a solitary founder at a single place and moment but instead is the ongoing communal accomplishment of successive generations of founders, guided by an evolving sense of purpose. A journal is, inter alia, catalyst and convener for a field of scholarship, hosting a decades-long conversation among a community of authors, readers, and reviewers. As part of the vibrant infrastructure that supports scholarship in the STS community, Science, Technology, & Human Values (ST&HV) has hosted such conversations for decades. At the fiftieth anniversary of the journal’s founding, ST&HV, remembers its generations of founders by inviting past editors to reflect on their editorship, its times, and their lives. By remembering our course, our challenges, and our companions along the way, we hope to help those who follow us to navigate the possibilities and perils to come.","PeriodicalId":48083,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology & Human Values","volume":"394 1","pages":"634 - 635"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79474606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Observations and Confessions: Honoring the Fiftieth Anniversary of Science, Technology, & Human Values Publications","authors":"J. Gaston","doi":"10.1177/01622439221102986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439221102986","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48083,"journal":{"name":"Science Technology & Human Values","volume":"1 1","pages":"644 - 646"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86525858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}