scholarly journals Anthropology of Science: The Cuneiform World

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-271
Author(s):  
Francesca Rochberg
Keyword(s):  
Anthropology Of Science

Biomedical Odysseys

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla Song
Keyword(s):  
Surgical Intervention ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Biomedical Science ◽  
Experimental Medicine ◽  
Fetal Cell ◽  
Cell Therapies ◽  
Anthropology Of Science ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Patient Activism

Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation. Galvanized by the potential of stem and fetal cells to regenerate damaged neurons and restore lost bodily functions, people grappling with paralysis and neurodegenerative disorders have ignored the warnings of doctors and scientists back home in order to stake their futures on a Chinese experiment. This book looks at why and how these individuals have entrusted their lives to Chinese neurosurgeons operating at the forefront of experimental medicine, in a world where technologies and risks move faster than laws can keep pace. The book shows how cutting-edge medicine is not just about the latest advances in biomedical science but also encompasses transformations in online patient activism, surgical intervention, and borderline experiments in health care bureaucracy. The book opens up important theoretical and methodological horizons in the anthropology of science, technology, and medicine. It illuminates how poignant journeys in search of fetal cell cures become tangled in complex webs of digital mediation, the entrepreneurial logics of postsocialist medicine, and fraught debates about the ethics of clinical experimentation. Using innovative methods to track the border-crossing quests of Chinese clinicians and their patients from around the world, the book maps the transnational life of fetal cell therapies.

scholarly journals Making the History of Early Modern Science: Reflections on a Discipline in the Age of Globalization

2015 ◽  
Vol 70 (02) ◽  
pp. 307-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella Romano
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Homogeneous Field ◽  
Early Modern Science ◽  
Anthropology Of Science ◽  
Change Of Scale ◽  
History Of

Abstract What kind of history is the history of science? To what extent does the academic research labeled as such delineate a homogeneous field? What are the current challenges that it faces? The recent translation of Simon Schaffer’s works into French, along with the publication of his 2014 Marc Bloch Lecture in the Annales, provides the framework for this article’s historiographical reflection on the profound changes that have taken place within the discipline over the last thirty years, particularly within a French context. The analysis is twofold. First, it aims to trace how new approaches to the sociology and anthropology of science have reconfigured the boundaries of the discipline. Second, it considers the effect of the abandonment of one of its major historiographical paradigms by most of the scholars currently working on early modern science: the scientific revolution as the rise of scientific modernity, underpinned by a Eurocentric vision of the production of knowledge. Although most research on the early modern period now strives to distance itself from this narrative, it must also face new challenges and questions—in particular the role of science in the processes of globalization and the multiplicity of sites and social configurations that participate in this change of scale. These challenges point towards new methods and styles in the history of science and, more broadly, the social sciences.

Between Two Poles: Bronislaw Malinowski, Ludwik Fleck, and the Anthropology of Science

1995 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 866-869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto J. Gonzalez ◽  
Laura Nader ◽  
C. Jay Ou
Keyword(s):  
Ludwik Fleck ◽  
Anthropology Of Science ◽  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski

scholarly journals KAJIAN NARATIF ANTROPOLOGI DAN PENDIDIKAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Laurensius Arliman S
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Science Education ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Learning Culture ◽  
Community Learning ◽  
Anthropology Of Science ◽  
Educational Anthropology

Anthropology of science education that was born in the mid-20th century. The question that arose at that time was the extent to which education could change society, the frame of mind at that time how to develop development in developing countries and indeed at that time developed countries like Europe were thinking of doing it. changes in society develop through its programs, so that educational anthropology tries to find patterns of community learning culture that can create a change.

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