New Special Issue “Cryotechnologies”
A new Special Issue ↗ of Science, Technology, & Human Values is all about cryotechnologies and can be accessed on SageJournals now!
Empirically and theoretically, the authors of the various articles explore cryotechnologies and their implications. In order to “take into account the complex, sometimes contradictory, pathways in which life, death, and time are made and remade through freezing”, they enquire into different freezing practices and biological materials such as egg cells, cord blood, lab mice, and breast milk.
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Special Issue Articles
Braun, Veit, Lafuente-Funes, Sara, Lemke, Thomas, & Liburkina, Ruzana (2023). Making Futures by Freezing Life: Ambivalent Temporalities of Cryopreservation Practices. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 48(4), 693–699. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439231170557 ↗
Lemke, Thomas (2023). Welcome to Whenever: Exploring Suspended Life in Cryopreservation Practices. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 48(4), 700–726. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439211057860 ↗
Myelnikov, Dmitriy, & Peres, Sara (2023). The Cold Futures of Mouse Genetics: Modes of Strain Cryopreservation Since the 1970s. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 48(4), 727–751. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439221138341↗
Lafuente-Funes, Sara (2023). The Role of Vitrification in Spanish Reproductive Labs: A Cryo-revolution Led by Strategic Freezing. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 48(4), 752–776. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439231155649 ↗
Liburkina, Ruzana (2023). Cryovalues beyond High Expectations: Endurance and the Construction of Value in Cord Blood Banking. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 48(4), 777–804. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439221108229 ↗
Romero-Bachiller, Carmen, & Santoro, Pablo (2023). The Cryopolitics of Human Milk: Thermal Assemblages of Breast Milk in Donation, Banking, and Bioindustrial Research. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 48(4), 805–831. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439221100868 ↗