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 ...

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Cardiovascular diseases present the leading cause of death worldwide. Over the last decade, their preventio has become not only a central medical and public health issue but also a matter of political concern as well as a ...