SMA - in print: new book series
The last few decades of the twentieth and the
first few years of the twenty-first century have
witnessed the proliferation of biomedical technologies.
Stem cell research, human cloning, reproductive
technologies, and new partnerships between private
and publicly funded
research are now a constant feature of headline
news. Because of this, there is a growing need
to understand the social, cultural, and humanistic
implications of these new technologies and the
social forces that helped actualize them.
We intend In Vivo: the cultural mediation of biomedical science to fill this need by concentrating on the practices and mediums used to process data, model knowledge, and communicate about biomedical science. In Vivo will publish historical analysis that helps place current biomedical research into economic, social, political, and cultural context. It will publish humanistic studies that will help elucidate the larger conceptual issues at stake in biomedical technologies and practices. And it will publish social scientific work that can then evaluate social theoretical models for understanding and evaluating recent biomedical developments. Perhaps most importantly of all, it will actively encourage scholars to think in longer time frames about the relationship of social and cultural foundations to biomedical practices.
Specific subjects may include the uses of rhetoric in biomedical research and applications, the use of film in medical analyses, changes in conceptions of human embodiment resulting from changes in representational practices, the application of virtual reality technologies to medicine, the relationship of genomics to informational processing, or the institutions and rhetorical 'technologies' that enable organ donation in a consumer society.
The series will primarily publish single-author monographs at a frequency of one to two per year. The series will select manuscripts that offer multidisciplinary perspectives, thus providing an interesting framework of enquiry that might not find a format for publication in a series oriented to a single discipline.
Series editors: Robert Mitchell, English, Duke
University; Phillip Thurtle, Sociology, Carleton
University
Acquisitions editor: Jacqueline Ettinger, Ph.D.,
University of Washington Press
Advisory Board:
Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, Director, Max-Planck-Institut
für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin.
Timothy Lenoir, Professor of History and Chair
of the Program in the History and Philosophy of
Science and Technology at Stanford University,
California.
Priscilla Wald, Associate Professor in English
at Duke University, North Carolina.
Catherine Waldby, Reader in Sociology and Communications
at Brunel University, London.
Kathleen Woodward, Professor of English and Director
of the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities
at the University of Washington.