The cryopolitics of human milk: Thermal assemblages of breast milk in donation, banking, and bioindustrial research

C Romero-Bachiller, P Santoro - Science, Technology, & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Cold is indispensable when preserving breast milk for later use in ordinary breastfeeding
practices and, in addition to other devices such as the breast pump, fridges and freezers …

On (global) care chains in times of crisis: egg donation and domestic work in Spain

S Lafuente-Funes, A Pérez Orozco - Tapuya: Latin American …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The Spanish reproductive bioeconomy has bloomed in the last few decades. There are now
over three hundred fertility clinics in Spain, which has become one of the main destinations …

Hybrid zones, bio-objectification and microbiota in human breast Milk banking

C Romero Bachiller, P Santoro Domingo - 2018 - docta.ucm.es
This paper critically examines hybridity and complexity in human biobanking, focusing on
current forms of human milk banking in Madrid (Spain). We present and analyze three …

¿ Dónde acaba un objeto? Objetos, fronteras e intimidad en la donación de leche materna

En nuestro artículo queremos explorar la dimensión plástica de los objetos, su
relacionalidad, su ser más bien “objeto-frontera”(Leigh Star y Griesemer, 1989) y la forma …

'It'sa family affair': The discursive entanglement of social formations in public and private cord blood banking in Italy

L Beltrame - Public Understanding of Science, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The dominant narrative in bioethical and biomedical literature criticises private/family cord
blood banking as selling a biomedical service that challenges the system of public banks …

'We came here to stay': Making biobanks worth maintaining in Spain

V Argudo‐Portal, M Domènech - Sociology of Health & Illness, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The oscillation between the promise and the disappointment of biobanks as techno‐
scientific infrastructures for contemporary biomedical research is frequent in the literature. In …

[PDF][PDF] episteMiC pLuraLization and heaLth aCtivist groups

C Romero-Bachiller, S García-Dauder, P Santoro - EASST, 2018 - researchgate.net
In this paper we present some of the main ideas and conclusions of our last two research
projects, which have analysed in depth several case studies around the increasing …

[PDF][PDF] the sCienCe teChnoLogy and

SG Dauder, C Romero-Bachiller, P Santoro - EASST - researchgate.net
We present the research trajectory and current projects of the Science, Technology and
Gender research group of Madrid, an interdisciplinary team composed of philosophers of …