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@inbook{Noël2021,

title = {Remaining Central and Interdisciplinary: Conditions for Success of a Research Speciality at the University of Strasbourg (1961-2011)},

author = {Marianne Noël},

editor = {Karen Kastenhofer and Susan Molyneux-Hodgson},

url = {https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-030-61728-8_2.pdf},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-61728-8_2},

isbn = {978-3-030-61728-8},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-03-23},

urldate = {2021-03-23},

booktitle = {Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences},

volume = {31},

pages = {41-64},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

abstract = {Supramolecular chemistry (SMC), at the interface between chemistry, physics and biology, is a research domain which has grown considerably in the last 40 years. Jean-Marie Lehn was the first to lay its foundations and formalise its concepts, in a seminal article published in 1978. This work earned him the 1987 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, which he shared with Charles J. Pedersen (DuPont) and Donald J. Cram (UCLA). The development of SMC has led to the creation of a dedicated institute and a new building on the university campus. In this chapter, the emergence of supramolecular chemistry as a paradigm and research speciality at the University of Strasbourg (France) is reconstructed with a focus on Lehn's central role in this process, proposing a three-period chronology based on Mullins' sequential model (1972). It is furthermore argued that the creation of a physical space, with particular architecture and functions, has also played a key role in consolidating what is now called the ``Strasbourg's chemistry''. The (multi)disciplinary character of SMC is discussed in reference to the concept of ``new disciplinarity'' put forward by Marcovich and Shinn (Soc Sci Inf 50(3--4):582--6062011, Toward a new dimension: exploring the nanoscale. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014).},

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@inbook{Raimbault2021,

title = {The Emergence of Technoscientific Fields and the New Political Sociology of Science},

author = {Benjamin Raimbault and Pierre-Benoit Joly},

editor = {Kastenhofer, Karen and Molyneux-Hodgson, Susan},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61728-8_4},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-61728-8_4},

isbn = {978-3-030-61728-8},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-03-23},

booktitle = {Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences},

volume = {31},

pages = {85--106},

publisher = {Springer International Publishing},

address = {Cham},

abstract = {This chapter conceptualizes the emergence of a techno-scientific field (TSF) as a multiscalar and progressive establishment of a new set of epistemic and social rules. Drawing on science and technology studies and field theories, we design an original conceptual framework that allows us to formulate three propositions to characterize the process of emergence of a TSF. We use the emergence of synthetic biology (Synbio) as a `laboratory' to test this framework. Each proposition refers to a determinant dimension in the process of emergence---heterogeneity, hierarchy, and autonomy. First, we claim that heterogeneity (of disciplines, research questions, visions, social norms) is constitutive of the emergence of a new TSF. Second, the population of Synbio researchers is highly stratified; a core group of scientific entrepreneurs (incumbents and challengers) plays an active role in the process of emergence. Third, strategies for the control of external resources are crucial to the structuration of the field, which is mirrored by the prominent role of core-group members as boundary spanners. An original scientometric approach is used to create specific variables that allow us to investigate both network and field structural dynamics bridging qualitative and quantitative approaches.},

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@inbook{Juárez2021,

title = {Performing an Invisibility Spell Exploring the media’s discourse on human migration in the aftermath of the Kerala floods and landslides of 2019},

author = {Víctor José Sánchez Juárez},

url = {https://www.belspo.be/belspo/brain-be/projects/FinalReports/MIGRADAPT_SEM2020.pdf

https://www.hugo.uliege.be/cms/c_7041964/en/the-state-of-environmental-migration-2020-a-review-of-2019},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-03-01},

urldate = {2021-03-01},

booktitle = {The State of Environmental Migration 2020 A review of 2019},

pages = {39-59},

publisher = {Presses Universitaires de Liège},

abstract = {Kerala is a Southern Indian state which underwent major floods and landslides in August 2018 and in August 2019 (see Images 2.1 and 2.2). According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), 2,675,000 disaster-related internal displacements occurred in India during 2018, of which more than half – about 1.5 million – were recorded in Kerala following the 2018 floods (IDMC, 2019). Data for new disaster-re- lated internal displacements in the country for 2019 amounted to 5 million (IDMC, 2020). Regarding the displacement linked to the 2019 Kerala floods, it is estimated that, by the end of August 2019, 251,000 Keralites had sought refuge in 1,639 relief camps across Southern India (India Today, 2019).},

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@inbook{Salazar2020,

title = {La RICYT cómo comunidad de práctica: ¿cómo de ha conformado en 25 años?},

author = {Mónica Salazar and Sandra Carolina Rivera-Torres},

url = {http://www.ricyt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/ElEstadoDeLaCiencia_2020.pdf},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-11-17},

booktitle = {EL ESTADO DE LA CIENCIA Principales Indicadores de Ciencia y Tecnología Iberoamericanos / Interamericanos 2020},

pages = {49-56},

abstract = {In addition to its regular sections, this year The State of Science commemorates RICYT’s 25 years with a special dossier of reflections on the production and use of science and technology indicators in Latin America. It has a foreword by Mariano Jabonero, Secretary General of the OEI, a special contribution by Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal, and reflections by Lidia Brito, Director of the Regional Office of Sciences for Latin America and the UNESCO Caribbean. Representatives of UIS-UNESCO, OECD, IDB and OAS also participate, along with different experts who have accompanied the trajectory of RICYT.

This publication is the result of the joint effort of the participating countries of the network, which provide the statistical information included in this volume, and of an active community of experts in indicators, accompanied by different international organizations that support the network.},

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@inbook{Struck-Kachani2019,

title = {Familles et Trouble du spectre de l'autisme},

author = {Alexandra Struk Kachani},

url = {https://www.dunod.com/sciences-humaines-et-sociales/familles-et-trouble-du-spectre-autisme},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-11-01},

publisher = {Dunod},

chapter = {2},

abstract = {Le Trouble du Spectre de l’Autisme (TSA) représente la deuxième pathologie neuro-developpementale la plus fréquente chez l’enfant. Ce handicap, présent tout au long de la vie, a des conséquences majeures sur le fonctionnement de la personne, mais aussi sur l’entourage familial et notamment les parents. Alors qu’il est fréquent d’entendre parler du «  retard français  » dans le champ de l’autisme, cet ouvrage recense de façon inédite des travaux de recherche nationaux sur les problématiques rencontrées par les familles afin de mieux les comprendre et les accompagner.

Il met en lumière les évolutions sociales de la place des familles de personnes avec un TSA (parents, couple, fratrie, grands-parents), leurs besoins et adaptation au quotidien, le partenariat parents-professionnels et enfin les dispositifs de soutien et d’accompagnement. Il donne également la parole à des professionnels et chercheurs, œuvrant sur l’ensemble du territoire français, mais aussi à des familles et associations.},

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@inbook{elJamal2018,

title = {Framing Arab Poverty Knowledge Production: A Socio-bibliometric Study},

author = {Sarah el Jamal and Sari Hanafi},

url = {https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2169/45489cad9888d522020e2caea2da13053770.pdf},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-04-28},

booktitle = {Facing An Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology},

pages = {175-194},

chapter = {14},

series = {SAGE Studies in International Sociology},

abstract = {Based on Mannheim’s theory (1936) that knowledge is socially constructed, and  its  production  process  is  influenced  by  the  social  context  in  which  it  occurs,  this  study  seeks  to  identify  and  analyze  the  social  influences  and forces behind the knowledge produced and disseminated in the form of  academic  journal  articles  on  the  topic  of  poverty  in  the  Arab  World.  Certain features and elements of the final body of knowledge (the articles) will be taken as telling indicators of the process in hindsight. These will be  the  basis  of  three  kinds  of  analyses  that  will  be  carried  out:  content  analysis, authorship analysis, and citation analysis. In content analysis, I will scrutinize the poverty concepts used, the methodologies applied, the use of theory, including theoretical frameworks of the studies, the prevail-ing political and epistemological paradigms, the structure of the articles, and the types of articles (critique, essay, fieldwork). In authorship analysis, I  will  survey  the  sociological  markers  pertaining  to  the  authors  and  institutions producing the articles. In citation analysis, I will analyze the characteristics and trends of the references. Ultimately, I seek to answer the following: What are the social factors conditioning the production of academic articles on poverty in the Arab World, and what are the observed trends thereof?},

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@inbook{Bouabid2017,

title = {Les partenaires internationaux du Maroc: analyse et cartographie des co-signatures avec les chercheurs étrangers},

author = {Hamid Bouabid and Pier Luigi Rossi and Jacques Gaillard},

editor = {Jacques Gaillard and Hamid Bouabid},

url = {http://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010069762

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315729996_Chapitre_3_-_Les_partenaires_internationaux_du_Maroc_analyse_et_cartographie_des_co-signatures_avec_les_chercheurs_etrangers},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-03-01},

urldate = {2017-03-01},

booktitle = {La recherche scientifique au Maroc et son internationalisation},

pages = {67-93},

chapter = {3},

abstract = {Ce chapitre propose une analyse rétrospective de l’internationalisation de la recherche marocaine et de son positionnement dans les clusters scientifiques régionaux à travers le prisme des publications du Maroc co-signées avec le reste du monde. Cette approche bilatérale est complétée dans une deuxième partie par une l’analyse des collaborations internationales du Maroc au sein des cluster (réseaux) arabes, africains et méditerranéens. Au cours des trente dernières années, la production scientifique marocaine se caractérise par une internationalisation marquée avec un niveau de publications signées avec des auteurs étrangers toujours supérieur à 50% en dépit du caractère fortement endogène des sciences médicales, lesquelles représente près de 40% de la production totale du Maroc. Ce niveau d’internationalisation varie en fonction des disciplines et des institutions. Il est comparable à celui de la plupart des « petits » pays scientifiques européens et assez proche de celui de la plupart des pays arabes. En dépit d’un recul en valeur relative depuis la fin des années 1990, la France, qui co-signe aujourd’hui environ 30% de la production scientifique marocaine, reste de loin le principal partenaire scientifique du Maroc et ceci pour l’ensemble des domaines scientifiques. L’Espagne, partenaire de 8,5% des co-publications, lesquelles sont en progression constante depuis les trente dernières années, s’affirme aujourd’hui comme le deuxième partenaire scientifique, suivi de l’Allemagne et des Etats-Unis, lesquels, jadis en deuxième position après la France, sont aujourd’hui le cinquième partenaire juste après l’Italie. L’Arabie saoudite, quasi inexistante dans les co-publications internationales marocaines jusqu’à la fin du siècle dernier, se classe en sixième position à quasi égalité avec les Etats-Unis et dépasse légèrement la Tunisie. Les autres pays appartenant aux douze principaux partenaires du Maroc (Canada, Algérie, Royaume uni, Portugal, Belgique) présentent des taux de co-publications autour de 2,5 % de la production scientifique marocaine avec, généralement, des progressions sur la dernière période. L’analyse des clusters scientifiques régionaux montre que le positionnement du Maroc demeure excentré dans le cluster scientifique arabe et africain et donc en décalage avec les ambitions partenariales du Maroc avec l’Afrique. En revanche, le Maroc est mieux positionné dans le cluster méditerranéen avec une bonne proximité avec le tryptique France-Italie-Espagne qui domine le paysage des collaborations scientifiques internationales dans cette région.},

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@inbook{bouabid7cooperation,

title = {Coopération scientifique et co-publications: le cas de l’Université Mohammed VC Souissi},

author = {Hamid Bouabid and Radouane Mrabet},

url = {http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers17-04/010069759.pdf#page=187},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

urldate = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {La recherche scientifique au Maroc et son internationalisation},

pages = {181-200},

publisher = {Editions universitaires européennes},

chapter = {7},

abstract = {Ce chapitre présente une évaluation de la politique de coopération scientifique au niveau de l’Université Mohammed V – Souissi (UM5S) en considérant d’une part les accords de coopération comme intrants et d’autre part les co-publications et leurs citations comme extrants. La cartographie de réseaux de proximité des institutions en fonction des disciplines scientifiques est utilisée pour visualiser les réseaux de coopération, la pluridisciplinarité à travers le croisement des institutions partenaires et les domaines scientifiques traités et enfin la pertinence de ces domaines en les projetant sur les domaines de pointe tels que répertoriés dans Science Watch de Thomson Reuters.

La compilation analytique des résultats à partir des métriques précédents a permis de catégoriser les institutions partenaires en 3 classes. La première, composée d’institutions avec lesquelles l’UM5S dispose d’accords de coopération et co-publie, peut être considérée comme cohérente en soi. La coopération avec ce groupe d’institutions mérite d’être davantage fidélisée et intensifiée. La deuxième catégorie est constituée d’institutions avec lesquelles il y a un volume substantiel de co-publications sans qu’aucun accord formel de coopération n’existe. Il est fortement suggéré que l’UM5S formalise sa coopération scientifique avec ses institutions selon une approche « bottom-up » afin de permettre à ses chercheurs de renforcer leur recherche collaborative. La troisième catégorie regroupe les institutions de pays émergents (en termes économique et scientifique) tels que la Chine, l’Inde, le Brésil et la Turquie, identifiées comme citant largement la production scientifique de l’UM5S. Cette dernière devrait considérer ces institutions comme un réservoir de partenariat potentiel pour une coopération scientifique future.},

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@inbook{cardon2017fragmentation,

title = {The Fragmentation of Plant and Food Biosecurity Research Networks: A Scientometric Analysis},

author = {Vincent Cardon and Marc Barbier},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46897-6_14},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

urldate = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {Practical Tools for Plant and Food Biosecurity},

volume = {8},

pages = {289-308},

publisher = {Springer},

abstract = {Scientometric analysis based on the mapping of complex networks performed with the Cortext manager platform reveals that biosecurity and bioterrorism have established research communities and literature, in which plant and crop biosecurity are by far less represented than human and animal issues. Biosecurity has not made plant health “disappear” and/or does not constitute a rival field of research. The conceptual apparatus of biosecurity is close to that of some other fields of research on plant health. Some specific consistent clusters of scientists and concepts related to biosecurity and agro-terrorism can be isolated however, in particular the members of the PlantFoodSec Network of Excellence. This result demonstrates the impact of European and international programs (such as CropBioTerror, PlantFoodSec, etc.) on the structure of research networks on agro-terrorism. The article opens with an analysis of qualitative material regarding the way this scientific production and agenda permeates (or not) through daily professional activities. Focusing on plant biosecurity and agro-terrorism, it targets some common issues in scientometrics and sociology of science about the boundaries of research domains and the emergence of new paradigms with specific concepts, methods, authors and cited references. It also echoes the range of questions and reflections at stake within the scientific communities related to biosecurity, and shows the effects of expertise-driven processes on the dynamics of knowledge.},

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@inbook{fausto2016scientific,

title = {Scientific Literature on Twitter as a subject research: findings based on bibliometric analysis},

author = {Sibele Fausto and Pascal Aventurier},

url = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01297804/},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

urldate = {2016-01-01},

booktitle = {Handbook Twitter For Research 2015 – 2016},

pages = {242},

publisher = {EMLYON Press},

abstract = {Since its launch in 2006, Internet platform Twitter has rapidly expanded. As a phenomenon of the digital era, Twitter generates a new type of research data that has received a good deal of attention in the academic literature. It has turned into a popular subject research that has been widely investigated in the academic world in different fields ranging from the Social Sciences to Health Sciences, addressing various questions, methods approaches, and covering multiple data sets. This study provides some findings of a bibliometric study which was conducted to describe the scientific literature available on Twitter with descriptive, quantitative information and also in a qualitative approach, in addition to the previous studies and designed as a contribution to a broader picture of how the evolution of the current scientific literature about Twitter is related to bibliographic data sets. Results show a variety of findings that can provide a better comprehension of this social media platform which evolved from a data source for the research to, nowadays, being a research subject itself },

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@inbook{baya2016mapping,

title = {Mapping Topics in International Climate Negotiations: A Computer-Assisted Semantic Network Approach},

author = {Nicolas Baya-Laffite and Jean-Philippe Cointet},

url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-40700-5_14},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

urldate = {2016-01-01},

booktitle = {Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research},

pages = {273-291},

publisher = {Springer},

abstract = {Baya-Laffite and Cointet map the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations topic structure and evolution over 20 years using a digital corpus from the most renowned internal journal of the negotiations available online, the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB). The authors’ methodological strategy combines text mining, network analysis and data visualization tools. The chapter shows how this mixed-method strategy applied to a digital corpus drawn from the ENB website, makes it possible to map climate change negotiations. Mixing traditional research methods and computer-assisted techniques, as well as manual and automated operations results in a series of unique new visual syntheses of the UNFCCC process. Narrating the visualizations allows distant readings of topics’ semantic structure and topic trajectories and thereby to test the robustness of the maps as well as the tools and methods used to produce them.},

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@inbook{Tancoigne2016,

title = {Evolution of a concept: a scientometric analysis of RRI},

author = {Elise Tancoigne and Sally Randles and Pierre-Benoît Joly},

editor = {Ralf Lindner and Stefan Kuhlmann and Sally Randles and Bjørn Bedsted and Guido Gorgoni and Erich Griessler and Allison Loconto and Niels Mejlgaard},

url = {http://irihs.ihs.ac.at/3909/1/urn_nbn_de_0011-n-3829371-3.pdf},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

booktitle = {Navigating Towards Shared Responsibility in Research and Innovation: Approach, Process and Results of the Res-AGorA Project},

pages = {40-45},

abstract = {Political scientists have considered the complex interac-tions between words and power for a long time. The power of words lies not only in the performativity of language – a typical situation where saying something is doing some-thing – but covers a wide range of means related to sense making, issue framing, and the control of perception and the interpretation of reality. The importance of words of power (meaning powerful actors) may be identified in different mundane operations of political life (i.e. when spin doctors elaborate elements of language) and through well-known operations such as labelling or storytelling. These strong interactions between words and power have been taken into account in various streams of public policy analysis (Fischer 2003). They are also a central theme of policy fiction such as George Orwell’s 1984 which points out the role of “Newspeak” in totalitarian states. Hence, the appearance of new expressions in policy discourse ought to be considered as a symptom of crisis and / or of potential key changes. The case of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is interesting for its own sake but also since it illustrates the key role of the European Com-mission as a political entrepreneur which heavily draws on discourse framing (Schmidt and Radaelli 2004). In this chapter, we question the power of RRI words as well as the use of RRI by powerful institutions. What is the power of RRI, i.e. (to say it roughly) a tool for recasting governance of research and innovation or a tool for washing responsi-bility (Randles et al. 2014)? Who are the actors who define /discuss / promote RRI?},

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@inbook{Aventurier2015,

title = {Estudo cientométrico dos Congressos Brasileiros de Agroecologia},

author = {Pascal Aventurier and Guillaume Ollivier and Maria Cleofas Faggion de Alencar and Stéphane Bellon},

url = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01181041/},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-01-01},

urldate = {2015-01-01},

booktitle = {Redes de agroecologias : experiênçias no Brasil e na França},

pages = {248},

abstract = {A produção técnico-científica internacional em Agroecologia, cuja fundamentação está ancorada nas bases de dados bibliográficas internacionais, o Web of Science (WoS) e o Scopus. Quando começamos a estudar a produção internacional, encontramos menos de 150 textos de pesquisadores brasileiros em mais de 2.500 artigos em Agroecologia (OLLIVIER et al., 2011, ALENCAR; AVENTURIER, 2013), que representa um número pequeno em relação à dinâmica de produção de conhecimento em Agroecologia no Brasil. A análise de Alencar e Aventurier, em 2014, mostrou que existem mais de 8.000 textos sobre o assunto publicados em congressos, artigos de revistas, dissertações e teses que estão sendo coletados e armazenados para estudos dos projetos “Repositório de acesso livre para agroecologia e agricultura orgânica do Brasil” (FAPESP, projeto 2009/54940-9) e “Agroecologia na França e no Brasil: entre redes científicas, movimentos sociais e políticas públicas” (CAPES/COFECUB, projeto 716/2011). Embora a história da Agroecologia no Brasil tenha se manifestado com abundância de atividades, principalmente nos congressos em agroecologia, a sua visibilidade não corresponde à dinâmica da produção técnico-científica internacional (ALENCAR, AVENTURIER, 2013). },

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@inbook{Chavalarias2015,

title = {Thematic Domination of Media Framing},

author = {David Chavalarias and Jean-Philippe Cointet and Lise Cornilleau and Tan Kiem Duong and Andrei Mogoutov and Lionel Villard and Camille Roth and Savy Thierry},

url = {https://cns.iu.edu//docs/handouts/Atlas_of_Knowledge_Flyer_hi.pdf},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-01-01},

booktitle = {Atlas of Knowledge Anyone Can Map},

pages = {17},

abstract = {Text-mining network analysis tools are used to identify the key themes discussed in the press at a given period. Each article is then associated with these automatically reconstructed topics whether they correspond to concerns expressed at the local level, or general statements and action at national/international level. These news items are also geo-located both by the origin of the story and the places mentioned in the story enabling to map how a given theme or issue is distributed over the world. Moreover, themes identified at successive time steps are reconnected into streams of content. A stream visualization illustrates how topics articulate through time. An online interface allows to visualize these maps, themes and news entries and to answer questions such as : Is an issue – concerning for example the impact of climatic change on food security – attracting more attention with time? How this specific issue relates with contiguous subjects (use of biofuel for example) ? Does the climatic change issue observed at a given time stem from, possibly various, past issue framing or is it a completely emergent topic ?},

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@inbook{gibbon2014breast,

title = {From BRCA to BRCAness: tales of translational research},

author = {Pascale Bourret and Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio},

url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264556063_From_BRCA_to_BRCAness_tales_of_translational_research},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

booktitle = {Breast Cancer Gene Research and Medical Practices: Transnational Perspectives in the time of BRCA},

pages = {175-193},

publisher = {Routledge},

abstract = {The discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the possibility of predictive genetic testing and led to the establishment of specific medical programmes for those at high risk of developing breast cancer in the UK, US and Europe. In the intervening fifteen years, the medical institutionalisation of these knowledge-practices and accompanying medical techniques for assessing and managing risk have advanced at a rapid pace across multiple national and transnational arenas, whilst also themselves constituting a highly mobile and shifting terrain.



This unique edited collection brings together cross-disciplinary social science research to present a broad global comparative understanding of the implications of BRCA gene research and medical practices. With a focus on time-economies that unfold locally, nationally and transnationally (including in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, the UK and the USA), the essays in this volume facilitate a re-reading of concepts such as prevention, kinship and heredity, and together offer a unique, timely and comparative perspective on these developments.

The book provides a coherent structure for examining the diversity of practices and discourses that surround developments linked to BRCA genetics, and to the evolving field of genetics more broadly. It will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, history of science, STS, public health and bioethics.},

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