Pub Date : 2025-06-27DOI: 10.1177/03063127251349231
Jason V D'Amours, Miranda R Waggoner
Despite the social and regulatory expectation that contemporary clinical trials for new pharmaceutical drugs will include a diverse set of research participants, achieving appropriate representation in clinical research remains tenuous. Of ongoing concern is how experts and regulators navigate decisions about drug approvals when presented with clinical studies that have limited demographic data. Drawing on regulatory discussions about Descovy, an HIV-prevention drug that was studied only in cisgender men and transgender women who have sex with men, we analyze a contentious debate over the meaning and impact of including and excluding certain populations from clinical trial design. Extending prior work in science and technology studies on how epistemological frameworks in clinical trials matter for concerns about the production of knowledge and social justice, we show how different conceptualizations of inclusion and equity (specifically, equity in data versus equity in access) come into tension in deliberations over pharmaceutical drug approvals. We argue that the discursive conflict over gender and inclusionary/exclusionary research practices that emerged in the case of Descovy points to an underappreciated feature of equity-temporality-that should be attended to when examining knowledge production in 21st-century clinical and regulatory landscapes.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-20DOI: 10.1177/03063127251347915
Mathieu Quet
A growing body of research and scholarship has examined the exploitation of animals by the biopharmaceutical industry, framing it variously in terms of labour, commodification, or hybrid processes. This article adds to the discussion through an ethnography of antivenom manufacturing in India. It introduces the concept of 'extractive loops' embedding species, locations, and work practices. Extractive loops form a continuum through which non-human life contributes to the manufacturing of resources (raw materials and finished products). The argument relies on a description of the operations required by the production of antivenom, involving: (a) several animal species (mostly snakes, horses, and rodents), (b) connections between a multiplicity of locations, from outdoor fields to industrial sites, (c) a wide range of professional practices, some of them strictly formalized whereas others are mainly informal (such as snake catching), and (d) heterogeneous exploitation of non-human life and products. Extractive loops highlight a key feature of animal exploitation: a recurring series of extractive practices contributing to the continuous fabrication of natural resources.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-14DOI: 10.1177/03063127251346168
Alain Müller
Through a case study of what are known as ‘relief models’—for example of areas of landscapes—this article approaches representational objects in and as practice. Such an approach implies following the multiplicity of practices that are gathered in representational objects to bring them into and maintain their existence, especially those that often remain unacknowledged by analytical attention. Most discussions of representational objects focus on their representational capacities and properties, paying less attention to the activities that ensure their ontological security as objects. Those activities concern not only the manufacture of representational objects, but also their maintenance—which is placed at the heart of this discussion. The maintenance of relief models manifests itself as a semiotic-material ecology. Entangled here are the ontological tact of the craftsperson, the affordances, resistances, and responsiveness of the materials, and the meaning-makings and stories that articulate and guide maintenance and repair. The practice of maintaining such objects, however, diverges from their production. Their production essentially accommodates metric distance since representation involves transporting a ‘thing’ through chains of reference. On the contrary, their maintenance aims to accommodate multiple temporalities. This involves not only the ways of being in time that are specific to each material that composes the object but also the idealized past of an unused object, its worn present, and its anticipated (repaired) future. By playing with the double meaning of the word ‘representing’, this article speculatively questions the extent to which practices of maintenance of, and care for, representational objects can inform a re-vision and rethinking of the relationships to what they are meant to re-present —that is, to what counts as nature.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-14DOI: 10.1177/03063127251342275
Margarita Boenig-Liptsin
In Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World every person is conditioned through technologies to fit their social role, which is the source of the society’s alleged stability and rightness. This utopia of ‘precision justice’ is alive today in projects that deploy data and algorithmic models in decision-making in diverse branches of life to realize computing’s promise to create more just societies. I identify the sociotechnical imaginary of ‘precision justice’ by analyzing the promise and contestation of the use of an algorithmic model to calculate exam grades in the United Kingdom during the Covid-19 pandemic. ‘Precision justice’ is the product of the coupling of a normative concept of just distribution with data practices of identification and risk assessment, and is characterized by interventionist action, optimal distribution, and system management. It crystallized in the contexts of the emerging ‘information society’ in the 1970s United States, when visions of the risks and opportunities of information in digital form converged with the popular theory and practices of distributive justice. At stake in this imaginary is the model of the human with which it operates and that it reproduces. Instead of keying people to a substantive and expansive concept of justice, the union of distributive justice and data practices bind people to indicators and allocate them to specific places in society. To move beyond precision justice, this article calls for the need to look at justice and data symmetrically, as a simultaneously epistemic and normative set of concerns that must be addressed together in terms of what worlds we want to build.
在赫胥黎（Aldous Huxley） 1932年的小说《美丽新世界》（Brave New World）中，每个人都被技术制约着，以适应他们的社会角色，这是社会所谓稳定和正确的来源。这种“精确正义”的乌托邦在今天的项目中仍然存在，这些项目将数据和算法模型部署到生活的各个分支的决策中，以实现计算创造更公正社会的承诺。我通过分析2019冠状病毒病大流行期间英国使用算法模型计算考试成绩的前景和争议，确定了“精确正义”的社会技术想象。“精确正义”是公正分配的规范概念与识别和风险评估的数据实践相结合的产物，其特点是干预行动、最佳分配和系统管理。它在20世纪70年代美国新兴的“信息社会”背景下具体化，当时对数字形式信息的风险和机会的看法与流行的分配正义理论和实践融合在一起。在这一想象中，关键是人类的模型，它用它来运作和繁殖。分配正义和数据实践的结合并没有将人们引向实质性和宽泛的正义概念，而是将人们与指标捆绑在一起，并将其分配到社会的特定位置。为了超越精确的正义，本文呼吁需要对称地看待正义和数据，作为一组同时存在的认知和规范问题，必须根据我们想要构建的世界一起解决。
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Pub Date : 2025-06-14DOI: 10.1177/03063127251344961
Venla Oikkonen, Maria Temmes
The article examines the possibilities and limits of patient advocacy-led health technology design through a case study: a non-commercial mobile self-tracking app developed by a Finnish patient organization to advance medical care and research in endometriosis, an underfunded and understudied gynecological condition. Drawing on interviews with patient organization representatives, specialized clinicians and people with endometriosis, as well as written endometriosis stories, this article traces the evolving expectations around the app to understand the landscape of hopes and concerns in which patient advocacy-led design is conceived and received. This article identifies tensions in visions about how the app could be used as well as locates shifts in expectations as the app moved from an idea to everyday use. The article also shows how structural aspects of established technological systems, such as digital health infrastructures or data ownership relations, shape expectations about future uses of patient advocacy-led technology. This case study contributes to science and technology studies scholarship on self-tracking and health technology development by providing a nuanced understanding of how the dynamics of expectation in patient advocacy-led design operate in a complex and underdiagnosed gendered chronic illness.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-09DOI: 10.1177/03063127251343046
Colin N Waters, Jan Zalasiewicz, Martin J Head, Georg N Schäfer, Francine MG McCarthy, Simon D Turner
Damianos provides his views on the significance of the March 2024 decision by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) to reject the proposal of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), the body we represent, to formalize the Anthropocene as a series/epoch of the Geological Time Scale. He draws upon ‘four years of ethnographic observation’ of the AWG, over which time this body provided him with access to its meetings and discussions. Given this access, the numerous misrepresentations within his article warrant redress. Ultimately, his conclusions mimic claims of influential figures within the governing bodies of the stratigraphic process: that the AWG were attempting to formalize the Anthropocene for political reasons and subvert the process through use of the media, and that the proposed definition was based upon claims about the future and not the past geological record. We refute those accusations, and emphasize that the proposed Anthropocene epoch, based on scrupulous and detailed analysis of the stratigraphic record, demonstrates striking and transformative Earth System change driven by the mid-20th century ‘Great Acceleration’ of human activities.
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Pub Date : 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1177/03063127251333074
Simon A Cole,Justin L Sola
This article investigates why statistical reasoning has had little impact on the practice of friction ridge (or 'fingerprint') examination, despite both interest and some modest scientific progress toward this goal. Previous research has attributed this lack of results to practitioner resistance and legal apathy. This article seeks to complement those explanations through interviews with experts with a variety of perspectives on contemporary fingerprint practice about practical and mundane obstacles to the belated statistical revolution in fingerprinting. Based on these interviews, we argue that a 'forensic device' is required to incorporate statistical reasoning into fingerprint practice. This device would consist of a robust statistical model fronted by accessible, usable software. These components, in turn, require other components, such as large research data sets, markets, early adopters, government clients, education, and training. We conclude that the statistical revolution has been delayed not just by grand debates over the probabilistic nature of fingerprint evidence, but also by the seemingly mundane problems posed by developing and maintaining the kind of forensic device that would make such a revolution possible and practical.
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Pub Date : 2025-05-06DOI: 10.1177/03063127251337781
Santtu Räisänen
This article examines meaning-making in a governmental technology demonstration, and its significance in the production of a durable artifice of innovation. STS literature has largely engaged with technology demonstrations in the context of commercial technology products, and through the lens of public knowledge-making: as events that elicit credence in matters-of-fact. I contribute to this discussion by turning attention towards a new context, governmental innovation, and approaching the format, not through its epistemics, but rather its aesthetic and affective registers. Over the course of a project aimed at building a governmental software system called the AuroraAI Network, to be used for the empowerment of welfare subjects, the Department of Government ICT at the Finnish Ministry of Finance produced a series of four highly theatrical events that sought to demonstrate the development of the AI system. Using social-semiotic performance analysis, I analyse these events as a kind of façade, one that presents the trappings of technology demonstration, but rather than advancing specific technical matters-of-fact, produces an affective and aesthetic sensibility of government innovation. By mobilizing the metaphor of façade, this research shows how empty innovation is made durable and successful.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-11DOI: 10.1177/03063127251334495
Sergio Sismondo
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Pub Date : 2025-04-11DOI: 10.1177/03063127251330545
Harry Collins, Robert Evans, Luis Reyes-Galindo
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