Pub Date : 2022-06-28DOI: 10.1177/01622439221108229
Ruzana Liburkina
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.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-22DOI: 10.1177/01622439221108239
V. Moore, M. Warin
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.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-05DOI: 10.1177/01622439221102987
U. Felt
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).
周年纪念激起回忆。在《科学、技术与人类价值观》出版50周年之际，我有一些个人的回忆想与大家分享。写这篇反思的文章让我回到了整整20年前，当我开始担任《科学、技术与人文价值》杂志的编辑，为期五年。这段时间将成为《华尔街日报》众多转变中的一个，比我接手这项任务时想象的要多;这是一个重大扩张的开始，同时也是对作为一个同时快速发展的学术协会——科学社会研究学会(Society for Social Studies of Science，简称4S)的期刊意味着什么的大量反思。
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Pub Date : 2022-06-05DOI: 10.1177/01622439221102990
S. Cozzens
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Pub Date : 2022-06-05DOI: 10.1177/01622439221102988
D. Chubin
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Pub Date : 2022-05-29DOI: 10.1177/01622439221102994
T. Neale, Courtney Addison, K. Lancaster, M. Kearnes
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Pub Date : 2022-05-29DOI: 10.1177/01622439221102991
E. Hackett
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).
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Pub Date : 2022-05-26DOI: 10.1177/01622439221102995
E. Hackett
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.
阿尔弗雷德•诺斯•怀特黑德(Alfred North Whitehead)在这一点上说错了:一个忘记创始人的领域有误入歧途和迷失的风险。通过记住它的创始人，一个领域可以用他们来确定方向，衡量进展，并规划未来的道路。科技的历史告诉我们，创立(以及发明或发现)并不是一个单独的创始人在一个地方和一个时刻的行为，而是在不断发展的使命感的指导下，连续几代创始人的共同成就。除其他外，期刊是一个学术领域的催化剂和召集人，在作者、读者和审稿人之间主持长达数十年的对话。作为支持STS社区奖学金的充满活力的基础设施的一部分，科学，技术与人文价值(ST&HV)几十年来一直主持这样的对话。在《ST&HV》创刊50周年之际，《ST&HV》邀请过去的编辑们回顾他们的编辑工作、时代和他们的生活，以此纪念几代创始人。通过记住我们的历程、我们的挑战和我们一路上的同伴，我们希望帮助那些追随我们的人驾驭未来的可能性和危险。
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Pub Date : 2022-05-24DOI: 10.1177/01622439221102986
J. Gaston
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