Add-on treatments are the new black. They are provided (most frequently, sold) to patients
undergoing in vitro fertilization on the premise that they will improve the chances of having a …

Background: The minorities' diminished return theory suggests that socioeconomic position
(SEP) generates smaller health gains for racial/ethnic minorities compared to Whites. The …

In the postmodern era, when the interface of bodies, biologies and technologies increasingly
challenges the very notion of what counts as human, this open access book proposes new …

Comedy and humour have frequently played a key role in disabled people's lives, for better
or for worse. Comedy has also played a crucial part in constructing cultural representations …

As genetic knowledge continues to strengthen notions of identity in Euro-American societies
and beyond, epigenetic knowledge is intervening in these legitimation frameworks. I explore …

This paper identifies and engages with the social bodies emerging by virtue of the social
turn in the life sciences and recent embodied approaches to social justice. Across these …

Martha Fineman has been my teacher, my mentor, and a true and abiding friend. I have
known her for over twenty-five years, and at every stage her ideas and her kindness have …

As this era ushers in a hyper-individualized technological paradigm promising targeted and
precise information for law and medicine, the science underpinning these new techniques …

The question of prostheses–as interventions into human embodiment–has occupied both
philosophical and cultural enquiry throughout the last two centuries offering both the …

What are the implications of microchimerism in sociocultural and ethico-legal contexts,
particularly as they relate to the destabilization of genetic origins? Conventional biomedicine …