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Apr 28, 2025

A Milieu of Mutations: The Pluripotency and Fungibility of Life in Asia

Contrary to claims that view the life sciences as having similar effects everywhere, I draw on research in the...
A Milieu of Mutations: The Pluripotency and Fungibility of Life in Asia
Research Article
Apr 28, 2025

Embodying Progress: Aesthetic Surgery and Socioeconomic Change in South Korea

Since the early 1960s South Korea has had one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. These developments have...
Embodying Progress: Aesthetic Surgery and Socioeconomic Change in South Korea
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Apr 28, 2025

Public Health, Laboratory Experiment, and Asymptomatic Carriers in Japan, ca. 1920–1950

From the 1920s and 1930s, discussion of asymptomatic carriers started to appear in Japan and quickly became well...
Public Health, Laboratory Experiment, and Asymptomatic Carriers in Japan, ca. 1920–1950
Research Article
Apr 28, 2025

Connecting with the Past? A Commentary

Over its relatively brief history, science and technology studies (STS) has developed into an interdisciplinary...
Connecting with the Past? A Commentary
Research Article
Apr 28, 2025

Religion, Psychiatry, and Psychotherapy: Exploring the Japanese Experience and the Possibility of a Transnational Framework

This article offers a four-part framework for exploring the complexities and nuances of a modern and contemporary...
Religion, Psychiatry, and Psychotherapy: Exploring the Japanese Experience and the Possibility of a Transnational Framework
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Apr 28, 2025

Reformulation and Appropriation of Traditional Knowledge in Industrial Ayurveda: The Trajectory of Jeevani 2

Reformulation and Appropriation of Traditional Knowledge in Industrial Ayurveda: The Trajectory of Jeevani 2
Research Article
Apr 28, 2025

Social Decision-Making Processes in Local Contexts: An STS Case Study on Nuclear Power Plant Siting in Japan

This is an STS case study of the social decision-making process on the siting of a nuclear power plant in Japan, from...
Social Decision-Making Processes in Local Contexts: An STS Case Study on Nuclear Power Plant Siting in Japan
Research Article
Apr 28, 2025

Asians—a Doping-Friendly Race? Antidoping Research and Popular Discourse on Race in the Postgenomic Era

There has been a growing concern about a new way of thinking about race in genomics. STS scholars have tried to make...
Asians—a Doping-Friendly Race? Antidoping Research and Popular Discourse on Race in the Postgenomic Era
Research Article
Apr 28, 2025

A Voyage to East Asian STS Theories; Or, What Might Make an STS Theory East Asian

This article explores some possible forms that a special East Asian approach to STS studies might take. The goal is...
A Voyage to East Asian STS Theories; Or, What Might Make an STS Theory East Asian
Research Article
Apr 28, 2025

The Social Shaping of the Scholarly Communication System in Mongolia

The adoption of electronic methods dominates the modern discussion of the scholarly communication process. What is...
The Social Shaping of the Scholarly Communication System in Mongolia
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