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Omics and AI in precision medicine: Maintaining socio-technical imaginaries by transforming technological assemblages Open
We understand precision medicine as a socio-technical imaginary according to Jasanoff. After briefly outlining how the imaginary of precision medicine emerged from the Human Genome Project and spread across national contexts, we raise the …
History, philosophy, and science education: reflections on genetics 20 years after the human genome project Open
They did it again!Kostas Kampourakis begins his book Making sense of genes with a few examples of headlines in respectable newspapers.Among them a 2014 headline from The Guardian: "'Happy gene' may increase chances of romantic relationship…
Research Narratives and Narratives of Nature in Scientific Articles: How Scientists Familiarize Their Communities with New Approaches and Epistemic Objects Open
The chapters in this volume show that narrative can be found on many levels and in many media in science. This contribution locates narratives in one of the most prominent forms of scientific literature in the twentieth century: the resear…
Approaches in Post‐Experimental Science. The Case of Precision Medicine** Open
In the introduction to his Spalt und Fuge , Hans‐Jörg Rheinberger points to the possibility that we are currently experiencing a new turning point regarding forms of experimentation, which is characterized by the growing importance of high…
Metagenomics approaches in microbial ecology and research for sustainable agriculture Open
Technologies such as next generation sequencing (NGS) are transforming research fields at the methodological, conceptual, and organizational level. They open up new possibilities and bring with them new commitments and inherent limitations…
The Innate Plasticity of Bodies and Minds Open
In recent years, concepts of plasticity and epigenetics have gained currency in different areas of the life sciences. In this article, we wish to ask primarily how plasticity and epigenetics relate to some notions in biology that they are …
Problems and Prospects of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Philosophy of Science Open
In this paper, we discuss some problems and prospects of interdisciplinary encounters by focusing on philosophy of science as a case study. After introducing the case, we give an overview about the various ways in which philosophy of scien…