The notion of the bioeconomy has gained importance in both research and policy debates
over the last decade, and is frequently argued to be a key part of the solution to multiple …

What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued
life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, Michelle …

A social vision is slowly emerging of the bioeconomy as an avenue towards sustainability.
This paper presents a systematic review of the existing literature on the connection between …

Sarah Nettleton's The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text,
popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the …

Welcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte
cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed and influential new …

We live in an era when all bodies are potentially'feminised'by being rendered'open-access'
for biomedical research and clinical practice. Adopting a theoretically sophisticated and …

The bioeconomy is becoming increasingly prominent in policy and scholarly literature, but
critical examination of the concept is lacking. We argue that the bioeconomy should be …

In recent years increasing numbers of women from wealthy countries have turned to egg
donation, egg freezing, and in vitro fertilization to become pregnant, especially later in life …

Human embryos and foetuses are highly public and contested figures. Their visual images
appear across a wide range of forums. They have become commercial commodities as part …

An examination of a decade and a half of political controversy, ethical debate, and scientific
progress in stem cell research. After a decade and a half, human pluripotent stem cell …