…instance, how acceleration will affect the quality of the data required for licensure; the position of the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) on the evaluation of these “fast-track” trials is…

…portion of the population during the critical migration and spawning period” (US Fish and Wildlife Service 2016a). Based on the working group’s recommendation, the Fish and Wildlife Service reduced the…

…these milieus: an ethos of novelty, innovation, and care—the best and the brightest designing clever devices to circumvent the messy complications and entanglements of collective action. Here, the influence of…

…in context and specificity. Whereas distillation of the core elements of a social formation for purposes of analysis and comparison is well accepted, reduction in the service of replication and…

…than the women they follow), jealousy over the choice of the godmother (and her stipend and equipment), or health complications may all contribute in causing tension, and in one case…

…of knowledge and the public good. Illustrative is John Sultson’s The Common Thread (Sulston and Ferry 2002). Sulston led the UK arm of the HGP, and is widely recognized as…

…the truth.” These three truths represent the idea behind, enabling form, and content of WikiLeaks’s leaks. The organization’s technocratic implementation of the theoretical truth of cypherpunk thought, based as it…

…of the first recipients was Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who remains the only person to die of Ebola on U.S. soil (Kroll 2014a). At the time of these…

…and social art collectives, dorkbots and open collaborative workshops, online and offline. As we put it then, the notion of the experimental was witnessing a shift from knowledge-site to social…

…time, with different ones dominating the mix at different times of year (Runckel et al 2011). And in many cases, these are perfectly healthy colonies, which don’t appear compromised in…

…clear obstacle to their commercialization. But again, the general evolution of the economy and the American society changed the odds: Progressive Grocer noted that more than half the population lived…

…and research materials. For instance, while the World Health Organization (WHO) has been opposed to travel restrictions to ensure continued circulation of health workers, the home institutions that employ such…

…on the other, capture the attention, the allegiance, and the admiration of the audience through his fluency, his strength of voice and his social maneuverability and psychological resilience.” Abrahams differentiates…

…go off track, to “[…] drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the…

…more kilos of zucchinis, a good occasion for them to tease their mother. This is the peak of the zucchini season, and Cecile really starts to get short on ideas…

…rationalization from one to the other. The first prophets were at the service of kings and would announce the results of war, exalting with their enraged ecstasy the rest of…

…The executive board room of the World Health Organization. The World Health Organization (WHO) received much of the criticism; the organization learned of the outbreak in March but did not…

Among the virologists and public health experts who crafted the “emerging diseases worldview” in the 1990s, Ebola was the paradigm of an emerging disease. The Ebola virus had been discovered…

…the success of modernization processes. In other words, they are a product of the very systems – of finance, of insurance, of transportation and communication, of industrial production – that…

…a misleading term, since the demand in question is less to own than to dispose. Refrigerators, especially old and broken ones, can leak toxic chemicals, and the North Americans who…

…the fruits of human thought and scientific research belong to the whole of humanity. Pirates have the opportunity, the motivation, the tools, the know-how, and the courage to create radical…