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Duke University Press eBooks, Nov 5, 2010
Stanford University Press eBooks, Mar 7, 2008
Stanford University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020
This paper explores a punctuated gendering of biomedical innovation in the California stem cell i... more This paper explores a punctuated gendering of biomedical innovation in the California stem cell initiative. I argue that gendered and raced and classed citizenship, biological bodies, and consumption were all called upon to enable and sustain the flow of public and private capital and bodily parts and labour in the stem cell economy that followed the passage of a state initiative to fund pluripotent stem cell research. The paper builds upon my previous work on a biomedical mode of reproduction, and draws on and adds to theories of a gendered division of labour, the commodification of reproduction, and the construction and disciplining of gender in advertising and consumption. I show that these different ways of understanding gender were each active at different points in the innovation pipeline. Although they all relied on intersectional understandings of women’s roles and identities, each of them mobilized a distinct understanding of gender in relation to a different demand of inno...
Stem Cell Brain Drains, Singapore, South Korea, and the “East”, Stem Cell Internationalism versus... more Stem Cell Brain Drains, Singapore, South Korea, and the “East”, Stem Cell Internationalism versus Stem Cell Tourism
Infertility around the Globe
Good Science, 2013
The Substitutive Research Subject, Animal Politics, From Humanizing the Animal Model to In-Vivo-i... more The Substitutive Research Subject, Animal Politics, From Humanizing the Animal Model to In-Vivo-izing the In Vitro Model
After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be... more After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo -- only a tacit agreement to disagree -- but the debate now takes place in a context in which human stem cell research and related technologies already exist. In this book, Charis Thompson investigates the evolution of the controversy over human pluripotent stem cell research in the United States and proposes a new ethical approach for "good science." Thompson traces political, ethical, and scientific developments that came together in what she characterizes as a "procurial" framing of innovation, based on concern with procurement of pluripotent cells and cell lines, a pro-cures mandate, and a proliferation of bio-curatorial practices. Thompson describes what she calls the "ethical choreography" that allowed research to go on as the controversy continued. The intense ethical attention led to some important discoverie...
This chapter contains sections titled: The End of the Beginning, Triage: Actors, Field Sites, Tra... more This chapter contains sections titled: The End of the Beginning, Triage: Actors, Field Sites, Transcripts, Overview of the Book
After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be... more After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo -- only a tacit agreement to disagree -- but the debate now takes place in a context in which human stem cell research and related technologies already exist. In this book, Charis Thompson investigates the evolution of the controversy over human pluripotent stem cell research in the United States and proposes a new ethical approach for "good science." Thompson traces political, ethical, and scientific developments that came together in what she characterizes as a "procurial" framing of innovation, based on concern with procurement of pluripotent cells and cell lines, a pro-cures mandate, and a proliferation of bio-curatorial practices. Thompson describes what she calls the "ethical choreography" that allowed research to go on as the controversy continued. The intense ethical attention led to some important discoverie...
The US nation spent the last month or so deciding whether to mind that one of the two major party... more The US nation spent the last month or so deciding whether to mind that one of the two major party candidates, Donald Trump, had bragged about using his money and power to kiss and grope women without consent, including the line about “grabbing women by the pussy,” that spurred the striking “pussy grabs back” meme. This came on the heels of disrespect toward Mexican Americans, Muslim Americans, African Americans and those with disabilities, and against a background of unrelenting misogyny.
Laboratory Animals, 2003
After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be... more After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo -- only a tacit agreement to disagree -- but the debate now takes place in a context in which human stem cell research and related technologies already exist. In this book, Charis Thompson investigates the evolution of the controversy over human pluripotent stem cell research in the United States and proposes a new ethical approach for "good science." Thompson traces political, ethical, and scientific developments that came together in what she characterizes as a "procurial" framing of innovation, based on concern with procurement of pluripotent cells and cell lines, a pro-cures mandate, and a proliferation of bio-curatorial practices. Thompson describes what she calls the "ethical choreography" that allowed research to go on as the controversy continued. The intense ethical attention led to some important discoveries as scientists attempted to invent around" ethical roadblocks. Some ethical concerns were highly legible; but others were hard to raise in the dominant procurial framing that allowed government funding for the practice of stem cell research to proceed despite controversy. Thompson broadens the debate to include such related topics as animal and human research subjecthood and altruism. Looking at fifteen years of stem cell debate and discoveries, Thompson argues that good science and good ethics are mutually reinforcing, rather than antithetical, in contemporary biomedicine.
American Journal of Sociology, 2015
Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment, 2017
Duke University Press eBooks, Nov 5, 2010
Stanford University Press eBooks, Mar 7, 2008
Stanford University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020
This paper explores a punctuated gendering of biomedical innovation in the California stem cell i... more This paper explores a punctuated gendering of biomedical innovation in the California stem cell initiative. I argue that gendered and raced and classed citizenship, biological bodies, and consumption were all called upon to enable and sustain the flow of public and private capital and bodily parts and labour in the stem cell economy that followed the passage of a state initiative to fund pluripotent stem cell research. The paper builds upon my previous work on a biomedical mode of reproduction, and draws on and adds to theories of a gendered division of labour, the commodification of reproduction, and the construction and disciplining of gender in advertising and consumption. I show that these different ways of understanding gender were each active at different points in the innovation pipeline. Although they all relied on intersectional understandings of women’s roles and identities, each of them mobilized a distinct understanding of gender in relation to a different demand of inno...
Stem Cell Brain Drains, Singapore, South Korea, and the “East”, Stem Cell Internationalism versus... more Stem Cell Brain Drains, Singapore, South Korea, and the “East”, Stem Cell Internationalism versus Stem Cell Tourism
Infertility around the Globe
Good Science, 2013
The Substitutive Research Subject, Animal Politics, From Humanizing the Animal Model to In-Vivo-i... more The Substitutive Research Subject, Animal Politics, From Humanizing the Animal Model to In-Vivo-izing the In Vitro Model
After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be... more After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo -- only a tacit agreement to disagree -- but the debate now takes place in a context in which human stem cell research and related technologies already exist. In this book, Charis Thompson investigates the evolution of the controversy over human pluripotent stem cell research in the United States and proposes a new ethical approach for "good science." Thompson traces political, ethical, and scientific developments that came together in what she characterizes as a "procurial" framing of innovation, based on concern with procurement of pluripotent cells and cell lines, a pro-cures mandate, and a proliferation of bio-curatorial practices. Thompson describes what she calls the "ethical choreography" that allowed research to go on as the controversy continued. The intense ethical attention led to some important discoverie...
This chapter contains sections titled: The End of the Beginning, Triage: Actors, Field Sites, Tra... more This chapter contains sections titled: The End of the Beginning, Triage: Actors, Field Sites, Transcripts, Overview of the Book
After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be... more After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo -- only a tacit agreement to disagree -- but the debate now takes place in a context in which human stem cell research and related technologies already exist. In this book, Charis Thompson investigates the evolution of the controversy over human pluripotent stem cell research in the United States and proposes a new ethical approach for "good science." Thompson traces political, ethical, and scientific developments that came together in what she characterizes as a "procurial" framing of innovation, based on concern with procurement of pluripotent cells and cell lines, a pro-cures mandate, and a proliferation of bio-curatorial practices. Thompson describes what she calls the "ethical choreography" that allowed research to go on as the controversy continued. The intense ethical attention led to some important discoverie...
The US nation spent the last month or so deciding whether to mind that one of the two major party... more The US nation spent the last month or so deciding whether to mind that one of the two major party candidates, Donald Trump, had bragged about using his money and power to kiss and grope women without consent, including the line about “grabbing women by the pussy,” that spurred the striking “pussy grabs back” meme. This came on the heels of disrespect toward Mexican Americans, Muslim Americans, African Americans and those with disabilities, and against a background of unrelenting misogyny.
Laboratory Animals, 2003
After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be... more After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell research has been normalized. There may be no consensus on the status of the embryo -- only a tacit agreement to disagree -- but the debate now takes place in a context in which human stem cell research and related technologies already exist. In this book, Charis Thompson investigates the evolution of the controversy over human pluripotent stem cell research in the United States and proposes a new ethical approach for "good science." Thompson traces political, ethical, and scientific developments that came together in what she characterizes as a "procurial" framing of innovation, based on concern with procurement of pluripotent cells and cell lines, a pro-cures mandate, and a proliferation of bio-curatorial practices. Thompson describes what she calls the "ethical choreography" that allowed research to go on as the controversy continued. The intense ethical attention led to some important discoveries as scientists attempted to invent around" ethical roadblocks. Some ethical concerns were highly legible; but others were hard to raise in the dominant procurial framing that allowed government funding for the practice of stem cell research to proceed despite controversy. Thompson broadens the debate to include such related topics as animal and human research subjecthood and altruism. Looking at fifteen years of stem cell debate and discoveries, Thompson argues that good science and good ethics are mutually reinforcing, rather than antithetical, in contemporary biomedicine.
American Journal of Sociology, 2015
Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment, 2017