16. Bodies and Technoscience. Practices, Imaginaries and Materiality
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Table of Contents
Stefano Crabu, Simone Arnaldi, Assunta Viteritti
Introduction. Exploring the Intersection of Bodies and Technologies in Social Theory and Science and Technology Studies: An Introduction
Part I. The Body Visible
Federico Neresini
Technologies in “making the invisible visible”
Manuela Perrotta
Seeing through Machines: Algorithms and the Pursuit of Mechanical Objectivity in Embryo Imaging
Barbara Pentimalli
«How ugly is this coronary!». Technoscientific Imaginaries and Body Metaphors in the Biomedical Field
Part II. The Body Proper
Valeria Cappellato, Valentina Moiso
A “Restored” Female Body: Practices and Imaginaries in Breast Cancer Treatments
Mariia Kiseleva, Andrei Kuznetsov
The body professional. How do AV developers acquire their bodies?
Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Volonté
Sizing Bodies and Making “Others”: Standardising and Appropriating Apparel
Part III. The Cyborg Body
Bianca Rumore
Theorising Cyborg Communities and Visual disabilities. Case Study of V(irtual)Eyes
Sara Casartelli
Science Vs. «Nature». Uncanny Technological, Aesthetic, and Political Implications of Plastic Surgery Practices
Stefan Nicolae
Dead Bodies. Living Boundaries Towards Socio-Technical Imaginaries of Plastination
Part IV. The Digitised Body
Elise Li Zheng
Technological Practices of Multiple Bodies: Self-tracking in an Overworking Culture
Jessica Pidoux, Pascale Kuntz
Digitamorphosis of feminine bodies on affective dating applications
Part V. The Body In and Beyond Science
Stefano Crabu, Barbara Morsello
Bodies by other means: Challenging the prevailing biomedical discourses within refused knowledge-based communities
Assunta Viteritti, Letizia Zampino
Designing life in the (in)visible world Stem-cells as epistemic objects and bio-objects in the interpretive flexibility perspective
Guido Nicolosi
Postface
Notes on Contributors
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Simone Arnaldi teaches sociology in the Department of Political and Social Science at the University of Trieste. His main research interests include responsible innovation, science policy, and science diplomacy.
Stefano Crabu, Ph.D. in Social Sciences is a science, technology and medicine sociologist at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology of the University of Padova. His research and publications focus on the sociomaterial and epistemological aspects of knowledge-making practices, laboratory practices and innovation from below.
Assunta Viteritti, Full Professor in Sociology of Education at Sapienza University of Rome, researches the interplay between education, learning, science, technology, and society. She is a former President of STS Italia, editorial board member of Tecnoscienza - The Italian Journal of Science and Technology Studies, and serves on the Council of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST).