This special issue of Science, Technology, & Human Values critically explores a new stage in which the life sciences and biomedical practices have entered. This new stage is marked by postgenomic developments and an increased ...

Building on the works of sociologists of health and illness that have highlighted the effects of visible difference and stigmatisation since Goffman, this article examines the ambivalence of visibility experienced by people ...

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 ...

Epigenetics is the study of changes in gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the DNA itself. The field is rapidly growing and being widely promoted, attracting attention in diverse arenas. These include ...

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

Eine zunehmend heterogene Zivilgesellschaft bildet kontextabhängig verschiedene Öffentlichkeiten heraus, deren Einbindung transparente Entscheidungsprozesse einerseits und Diskurskompetenz andererseits voraussetzt. Das ...

This paper introduces the notion of ‘phenomenography’. Phenomenography is an ethnographic research practice that attempts to combine practice-theoretical approaches (praxiography) to investigations of human-environment-technology ...

This study analyzes search performance in an academic search test collection. In a component-level evaluation setting, 3,276 configurations over 100 topics were tested involving variations in queries, documents and system ...

Dokumentation des Arbeitstreffen „Was ist unser Stadtteil wert? – Die Potenziale einer Community Cartography für eine andere Darstellung von Stadträumen“ im Rahmen des deutschen Netzwerks des EU-Forschungsprojekts SEiSMiC ...