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  • Exploring the post-genomic world: differing explanatory and manipulatory functions of post-genomic sciences 

    Holmes, C., Carlson, S. M., McDonald, F., Jones, M., & Graham, J. E. (2016). Exploring the post-genomic world: Differing explanatory and manipulatory functions of post-genomic sciences. New Genetics and Society, 35(1), 49-68. doi: 10.1080/14636778.2015.1133280
    Richard Lewontin proposed that the ability of a scientific field to create a narrative for public understanding garners it social relevance. This article applies Lewontin’s conceptual framework of the functions of science ...
  • Just Evidence: Opening Health Knowledge to a Parliament of Evidence 

    Graham, J. E., & Jones, M. (2016). Just Evidence: Opening Health Knowledge to a Parliament of Evidence. In B. H. MacDonald, S. S. Soomai, E. M. De Santo, & P. G. Wells (Eds.), Science, Information, and Policy Interface for Effective Coastal and Ocean Management (pp. 362-387). CRC Press.
    In this chapter, we present a complementary perspective to the oceans theme of this volume by ethnographically engaging the circulation of scientific knowledge and evidence in a different but comparable policy decision-making ...
  • Rendre évident: une approche symétrique de la réglementation des produits thérapeutiques 

    Graham, J., & Jones, M. (2010). Rendre évident: une approche symétrique de la réglementation des produits thérapeutiques. Sociologie et Sociétés, 42(2), 153-180.
    ENGLISH: Within the social studies of science, risk regulation regimes dominated by a technocratic approach are critiqued for neglecting public, socially situated epistemological standpoints, which, it is argued, are more ...