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Proverbial economies of STS.
Soc Stud Sci
November 2024
Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
This article discusses examples from an extended family of aphorisms, stories, and themes that have circulated widely in STS and remain associated with the formation and integration of the field. Drawing upon Harvey Sacks's insightful remarks about features of everyday conversation, which he related to ancient practices in oral culture, we argue that familiar citation magnets in STS operate in many respects like proverbs, parables, and an extended family of neatly and memorably packaged viral articulations in ordinary language. After discussing the contingent production of proverbial truth, the article focuses on three well-known examples that combine memorable proverbs and themes with parables: Winner's account of the low parkway bridges designed by city planner Robert Moses to show that technology politics; Pinch and Bijker's concise history of the bicycle to illustrate the social construction of technology, and Star and Griesemer's viral two-word theme of 'boundary objects' as artifacts that sustain collaboration across organizational contexts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFatherlessness, sperm donors and 'so what?' parentage: arguing against the immorality of donor conception through 'world literature'.
Med Humanit
December 2022
Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK
Is biology and knowing biological ancestral information essential to the construction of identity? Bioethicist James David Velleman believes this is the case and argues that donor gamete conception is immoral because a portion of genetic heritage will be unknown. Velleman is critical of sperm donation and the absence of a biological father in donor-assisted families. His bioethical work, specifically the 2005 article 'Family History', is oft-cited in articles debating the ethics surrounding gamete donations and diverse family formations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMoses, money, and multiple-choice: The Moses illusion in a multiple-choice format with high incentives.
Mem Cognit
May 2021
Social Cognition Center Cologne, University of Cologne, Richard-Strauss-Straße 2, 50931, Köln, Germany.
When people answer the question "How many animals of each kind did Moses take on the Ark?", they usually respond with "two," although Moses does not appear in the biblical story of the Ark. We investigated this "Moses illusion" in a multiple-choice format and tested the influence of monetary incentives on the illusion's strength. Thereby, we addressed the role of a cooperative communication context for the illusion's emergence, as well as the role of participants' motivation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSupporting Black voices in urology.
Nat Rev Urol
January 2021
Department of Urology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA.
At , we have pledged to strive towards improving diversity in our field. As a step towards this goal, this Viewpoint presents the experiences of 10 Black urologists. Their stories illustrate the importance of perseverance and emphasize the essential role of community and mentorship to raise up our peers and colleagues, to support and encourage Black urologists and lead to a more diverse field of urology in the future.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEpistles of dyspareunia: storying Christian women's experiences of painful sex.
Cult Health Sex
May 2021
Sundara Wellness Center, Southaven, TN, USA.
Dyspareunia is painful attempted or completed vaginal-penile intercourse, and vaginal pain from other forms of touch. Because there is a persistent underlying message of shame and taboo surrounding female sexual pleasure in some Christian-informed cultural contexts, we sought to examine how self-identified Christian women in the Midsouthern USA conceptualise and experience dyspareunia. Data were collected through initial surveys and semi-structured interviews and analysed using incident-to-incident and in-vivo coding.
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