The re-organisation of living tissues, images, data and knowledges into digital form provides huge challenges for the humanities and social sciences.

Key publications

Buller, H. 2012. One Slash of Light, then Gone”: Animals as Movement. Etudes Rurales (189), 139-154.

Davies, GF. 2011. Writing biology with mutant mice: the monstrous potential of post genomic life. Geoforum doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.03.004.

Dupre, J. Parry, S. 2010. Nature after the genome, Blackwell Pub.

Dupre, J. 2012. Processes of Life, Essays in the Philosophy of Biology, Oxford University Press, USA, 2012.

Gaginer, R. 2010. Individualism, Decadence and Globalization: On the Relationship of Part to Whole, 1859-1920, Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave Macmillan.

Giannachi, G. Kaye, N. 2011. Performing Presence: Between the Live and the Simulated, Manchester, Manchester University Press.

Hauskeller, C. Wilson-Kovacs, D. 2012. The clinician-scientist: professional dynamics in clinical stem cell research, Sociology of Health and Illness, vol. 34, no. 4, 2012, 497-512 DOI.

Hawkins, N. 2011. Who Owns You? The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes, Journal of Biosocial Science, vol. 43, no. 6, 2011, 765-766 Full Article DOI.

Hinchliffe, S.J., Allen, J.R., Lavau, S., Bingham, N., Carter, S. 2012. Biosecurity and the Topologies of Infected Life: from borderlines to borderlands. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

Hurn, S. 2011. Humans and Other Animals. Human-Animal Interactions in Cross Cultural Perspective. London: Pluto Press.

Kelly, A. Beisel, U. 2011. Neglected malarias: The frontlines and back alleys of global health, BioSocieties 6, 71-87 doi:10.1057/biosoc.2010.42. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00538.x.

Leonelli, S. 2012. When Humans Are the Exception: Cross-Species Databases at the Interface of Biological and Clinical Research. Social Studies of Science, vol. 42, no. 2.

Macnaghten PM. Owen R. 2011. Good Governance for Geoengineering. Nature 479: 293.

Mueller-Wille, SEW. Rheinberger, RJ. 2012. A Cultural History of Heredity, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press.

Pickering, A. 2010. The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future, Chicago, IL, USA, University of Chicago Press.

Schillmeier, M. 2010. Rethinking Disability. Bodies, Senses and Things. London New York: Routledge.

Waelde, C. Schlesinger, P. 2012. Copyright and cultural work: An exploration, Innovation, vol. 25, no. 1, 11-28 DOI.

Wagner, C. 2013. Pathologies: Medicine and Politics in the Age of Revolutions, University of California Press.