Intersecting Processes

complexity & change in environment, biomedicine & society

October 12, 2010
by peter.taylor
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Imagination and the psychology of agents (as seen or hidden in social studies of science)

I would affirm that all human activity is imaginative, that is, the result of a labor process that grows out of the laborer’s imagination. Agents assess, not necessarily explicitly, the practical constraints and facilitations of possible actions in advance of … Continue reading

October 9, 2010
by peter.taylor
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Open Spaces for Changing Science and Society

What concepts and practices help us work in the arena bordered on one side by critical interpretation of the directions taken by scientific and technological research and application and on the other side by organizing social movements so as to … Continue reading

September 7, 2010
by peter.taylor
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The relationship between interpretation in/of science and change

‘Gessen’s genetic counselors recommended an oophorectomy.  But Gessen balked… Our culture doesn’t yet have the infrastructure to handle the consequences of the recent revolution in genetic testing.  But we’ll need it…’ Review of Gessen (2008), Blood Matters, in International Herald … Continue reading

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