This essay discusses the recent rise of interest in the global history of science. It first
explains the central characteristics of this new scholarly development and distinguishes it …

Scientists have identified southern China as a likely epicenter for viral pandemics, a place
where new viruses emerge out of intensively farmed landscapes and human--animal …

Anthropological STS, distinct from its nearest neighbors social studies of science (SSK),
social studies of technology (SCOT), and actor–network theory (ANT), is (a) more holistic …

Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen
essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present …

This article revisits the conceptualisation of pharmaceutical regulation. While States and
multilateral organisations play a central part in devising rules, regulation as a social practice …

The international landscape of medical research is in the midst of a process of diversification
and change. The randomized controlled trial (RCT), long considered the global gold …

This article traces patterns of continuity and transformation shaping Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan
medicine) pharmacy in contemporary Ladakh, Himalayan India. It examines interlinked …

On several occasions, the People's Republic of China refused to share influenza viruses
isolated on their territory with the World Health Organization pandemic flu surveillance …

This paper analyzes the regulatory trajectory of multiple-embryo transfer in in-vitro
fertilization (IVF) in Taiwan. Taking a latecomer to policy-making as the case, it argues the …

Abstract East Asia and Southeast Asia provide at least four relational locales or sites of
cultural critique and materials for new twenty-first-century theory construction governed by …