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The Labyrinth Project: Co-existence, Extermination, and the Governance of Animals in Los Angeles, California
The Labyrinth Project is a collaborative inquiry into nature in Los Angeles. Lab members include faculty in The Institute for Society and Genetics alo
The Biology of History: Life after Industrialization, from Antimicrobials to Metabolism
This project seeks to understand how human technologies are changing the biological world, to the extent that we can speak of an anthropogenic biology
“Can We Trust Science from China?” Observations around the Ascent of a New Power Player
MoreHistoricizing the Reproducibility Crisis
MoreMathematics, the Body, and the Soul: Nicolaus Steno and the Search for Certainty in the 17th Century
Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) became famous for scientific discoveries such as naming the so-called female testicles as ovaries, describing the heart as
Turbulent Transmissions: The Public Roles of Chinese Scientists in the Covid-19 Crisis
Many months into the 2020 global COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the exact origin of the virus remains unknown. Although it is commonly agreed that th
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Chinese scientists played important roles in uncovering some of the mysteries surrounding early cases of COVID-19, and as transmitters of information
“The Global War Against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis” in China
Funded by the Wellcome Trust with an Investigator Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences (grant number 217988/Z/19/Z) The Global War Against the
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Sciences, Practices, and Myths of Breeding Birds during the Mamluk Period
Drawing on agriculture treatises, veterinary books and byzarah books and chronicles, the project examines how birds were bred during the Mamluk period
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Abdelnaby, Heba. Al-Ṭuyur fi al-cAṣr al-Mamlukī (Birds in Mamluk Period). Giza: Ein for Human and Social Studie
Validating Laboratory Diagnostics in Medical Parasitology: Morphological and Molecularized Approaches between Clinical, Epistemic, and Political Interests
Parasite in the context of infectious diseases is an umbrella term for a wide variety of eukaryotic organisms. Medical parasitology therefore has been
Validating Quantitative Constructs before Construct Validation: The Case of Early Psychophysics
Measurement is crucial to a wide variety of epistemic activities in the psychological and biomedical sciences as well as in everyday clinical practice