Interdisziplinärität ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einem wissenschaftspolitischen Desiderat geworden. Gleichzeitig besteht bisher kaum Einigkeit darüber, wie sich interdisziplinäre Forschung strukturieren oder ...

Sicherlich ist auch bei Ihnen in den letzten Monaten ein Brief von Ihrer Krankenkasse eingetroffen, die Ihnen anbietet, an einem Bonusprogramm teilzunehmen: Sie halten sich fit, am besten mit Hilfe eines Präventionsprogramms, ...

The article analyzes knowledges and options, produced by the life sciences, and focuses on emergent social forms and divergent cultural modes in which they are integrated into everyday routines and vernacular thinking. ...

From the 1970s onwards, reproductive medicine made available interventions and treatments that were readily taken up by an increasing number of people “to make kin” in western and “non-western” societies alike. Instead of ...

This paper reports on a co-laborative laboratory ethnography in a molecular biology laboratory conducting research on environmental epigenetics. It focuses on a single study concerned with the material implications of ...

The molecular biological field of epigenetics has recently attracted attention not only in biology, but also in the broader scientific community and the popular press. Commentators paint a very heterogeneous picture with ...

Recent findings in neuroscience have shown differential patterns in brain activity in response to similar stimuli and activities across cultural and social differences. This calls for a framework to understand how such ...