05052nam a22005775i 4500 978-3-031-65797-9 DE-He213 20251030113318.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241119s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031657979 978-3-031-65797-9 10.1007/978-3-031-65797-9 doi Q175.4-.55 JF bicssc SOC000000 bisacsh JB thema Politics and Practices of the Ethnographies of Biomedicine and STEM [electronic resource] : Among White Coats / edited by Cinzia Greco. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XX, 244 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1. Transnational Encounters in Science and Technology Ethnographies -- Chapter 2. Being a Native Anthropologist among Scientists -- Chapter 3. Utopian aspirations in the NHS -- Chapter 4. Asymmetries of knowledge and asymmetries of power in the field a medical anthropologist in biomedical contexts -- Chapter 5. Science as a tool of the revolution The local character of science studies in Cuba -- Chapter 6. Multidisciplinary collaborations as a boundary-making practices -- Chapter 7. Co-producing research with stakeholders empirical notes from a sustainable mining workshop in Northern Brazil -- Chapter 8. Engaging with a xenobiology laboratory as a social scientist lessons, opportunities and challenges etc. Politics and Practices of the Ethnographies of Biomedicine and STEM: Among White Coats collects critical examinations of the politics, positionality, and epistemological and methodological issues of doing ethnography in a number of locales across the globe and in fields including computer science, astronomy, mining, biology, and medicine. The book captures a wide breadth of ethnographic case studies conducted by scholars at different stages of their careers, with various geographical backgrounds, and working across different settings and regions of the world, demonstrating the unfolding of overlapping concerns in unique ways. ‘Among White Coats’ is the first systematic and critical examination of the politics and epistemology of doing ethnography in biomedicine and STEM, adding to the extensive production of studies based on the ethnography of medicine and ethnography of science, as well as the ongoing debate on the foundation of ethnography. The book is geared toward academics and research students from different disciplinary backgrounds. It is a resource useful not only for students and Ph.D. candidates but also for expert ethnographers, presenting the most recent debates on ethnography and knowledge production in the STEM and biomedical fields. The book is partly a response to the growing awareness of the increasingly pertinent objective for ethnographers to reflect on their positionalities in their writing. Thus, this book offers a reflexive guide to thinking through the political and practical aspects of ethnographic practice. Cinzia Greco is Wellcome Trust Fellow at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester. As a medical anthropologist, she has worked for more than ten years on ethnographic studies of medicine, with interests in cancer, medical innovation, inequalities in access to healthcare, and gender and health. She is Author of the forthcoming book Assemblages of cancer: Experiences and contexts of breast cancer in the UK, France and Italy and Co-editor of the ‘New Chronicities’ special issue of Anthropology & Medicine, and her research has appeared in several journals, including Social Science & Medicine, Medical Anthropology, and Journal of Gender Studies. Science Social aspects. 69032 Medicine Research. 62598 Biology Research. 65629 Bioethics. 68916 Ethnology. 58687 Social medicine. 62456 Science and Technology Studies. 69033 Biomedical Research. 65633 Bioethics. 68916 Ethnography. 70800 Health, Medicine and Society. 69853 Greco, Cinzia. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 87698 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031657962 Printed edition: 9783031657986 Printed edition: 9783031657993 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65797-9 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 65039 65039