Standardizing the Unknown: Practicable Pluripotency as Doable Futures

Eriksson, Lina; Webster, Andrew

doi:10.1080/09505430701872814

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“…(Similar definitional issues have complicated efforts to standardize stem cell lines, see e.g. Eriksson & Webster 2008.) At present, it is far easier to make a BioBrick than to characterize one; agreeing on what to measure in order to characterize a biological part is acknowledged as a crucial issue for the progress of the field (Arkin, 2008), but has received less community attention to date than the issue of what design standard(s) BioBricks should conform to.…”

Section: Negotiating Epistemic Value Through Biobrick Designmentioning

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Making big promises come true? Articulating and realizing value in synthetic biology

Frow

2013

BioSocieties

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Section: Negotiating Epistemic Value Through Biobrick Designmentioning

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Making big promises come true? Articulating and realizing value in synthetic biology

Frow

2013

BioSocieties

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“…Are hESCs political and ethical objects or merely tools for stem cell therapies and research (cf. Eriksson and Webster, 2008)? Through deconstructions of these, we can understand more of how discourses serve to govern what is discussed and not discussed in media reporting.…”

Section: Subject Positions and Bio-identitiesmentioning

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Stem Cells between Ethics and Entrepreneurship: How a Contested Bio-Object Became ‘Normal’

Ideland

2014

Studies in Media and Communication

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Human Embryonic Stem Cell (hESC) research has been described by many scholars as a controversial issue. However, in Swedish media reporting, hESC research is no longer described as contested. The aim of this paper is to explore how this research field has been normalized through discursive shifts which have had effects in terms of the lack of debate around novel biotechnologies.The article compares the reporting of Swedish newspapers on hESC research during year 2001 and onwards. The reason for this selection is that during 2001 there was a heated debate around hESC. After that point, media reporting is characterized by a lack of debate. Therefore, Swedish media reporting makes an interesting case for understanding how an ethical controversy can end. To conceptualize the contemporary lack of media reporting and debate, this paper analyzes discourses operating in news media reports during and after 2001 through studying how different researcher/subject positions and hESC bio-identities are articulated during different times, and how these open up for different issues to be, or not to be, reported and discussed. Laclau and Mouffe's discourse theory, as well as a theoretical framework of bio-objectification inspire the analysis.The result shows how ethical and political discourses about hESC in the Swedish news media have been replaced with engineering and economical discourses. The main point is that this new discursive formation has closed opportunities for oppositional ways of talking about hESC research, for example, as an ethical issue or an area for political debate and legislation. Instead, scientific-technological-therapeutic progress has been bound to a belief in economic progress. The final part of this article discusses how this discursive change can be understood in the perspective of changing relations between the public and academia, but also how dissolving positions can open up hegemonic discourses and challenge fixed meanings.

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“…, Cyranoski 2007a;2007b). However, no consensus has been reached on whether these two types of pluripotent stem cells can be treated interchangeably, and no agreed-upon criteria for assessing their interchangeability are available (Eriksson and Webster 2008). For this reason, the therapeutic usefulness of iPS cells is yet to be confirmed, and in some western countries these cells are considered as the tools for basic research or modeling diseases in a laboratory, rather than the sources for RM (Hauskeller and Weber 2011).…”

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State-Supported Science and Imaginary Lock-in: The Case of Regenerative Medicine in Japan

Mikami

2014

Science as Culture

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Standardizing the Unknown: Practicable Pluripotency as Doable Futures

Cited by 50 publications

References 13 publications

Making big promises come true? Articulating and realizing value in synthetic biology

Making big promises come true? Articulating and realizing value in synthetic biology

Stem Cells between Ethics and Entrepreneurship: How a Contested Bio-Object Became ‘Normal’

State-Supported Science and Imaginary Lock-in: The Case of Regenerative Medicine in Japan

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