Politics and Practices of the Ethnographies of Biomedicine and STEM: Among White Coats
Author:   Cinzia Greco
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
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Pages:   244
Publication Date:   20 November 2025
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Politics and Practices of the Ethnographies of Biomedicine and STEM: Among White Coats


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Author:   Cinzia Greco
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783031657993


ISBN 10:   3031657993
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   20 November 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Transnational Encounters in Science and Technology Ethnographies.- Chapter 2. Being a Native Anthropologist among Scientists.- Chapter 3. Utopian aspirations in the NHS.- Chapter 4. Asymmetries of knowledge and asymmetries of power in the field a medical anthropologist in biomedical contexts.- Chapter 5. Science as a tool of the revolution The local character of science studies in Cuba.- Chapter 6. Multidisciplinary collaborations as a boundary-making practices.- Chapter 7. Co-producing research with stakeholders empirical notes from a sustainable mining workshop in Northern Brazil.- Chapter 8. Engaging with a xenobiology laboratory as a social scientist lessons, opportunities and challenges etc.

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Cinzia Greco is Wellcome Trust Fellow at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester. As a medical anthropologist, she has worked for more than ten years on ethnographic studies of medicine, with interests in cancer, medical innovation, inequalities in access to healthcare, and gender and health. She is Author of the forthcoming book Assemblages of cancer: Experiences and contexts of breast cancer in the UK, France and Italy and Co-editor of the ‘New Chronicities’ special issue of Anthropology & Medicine, and her research has appeared in several journals, including Social Science & Medicine, Medical Anthropology, and Journal of Gender Studies.

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