Bruno Latour is one of the founding figures in social network theory and a broadly influential sy... more Bruno Latour is one of the founding figures in social network theory and a broadly influential systems thinker. Although his work has always been relational, little scholarship has engaged the relational morality, ontology, and epistemology of feminist care ethics with Latour's actor-network theory. This article is intended as a translation and a prompt to spur further interactions. Latour's recent publications, in particular, have focused on the new climate regime of the Anthropocene. Care theorists are just beginning to address posthuman approaches to care. The argument here is that Latourian analysis is helpful for such explorations, given that caring for the earth and its inhabitants is the dire moral challenge of our time. The aim here is not to characterize Latour as a care theorist but rather as a provocative scholar who has much to say that is significant to care thinking. We begin with a brief introduction to Latour's scholarship and lexicon, followed by a discussion of care theorist Puig de la Bellacasa's work on Latour. We then explore recent work on care and the environment consistent with a Latourian approach. The conclusion reinforces the notion that valuing relationality across humans and non-human matter is essential to confronting the Anthropocene.
At the beginning of Winter term 2010, Freshman Inquiry faculty and mentors were invited to a seri... more At the beginning of Winter term 2010, Freshman Inquiry faculty and mentors were invited to a series of conversations about the students in their courses who had earned poor grades fall term (D, F, W or I) or had not returned to Freshman Inquiry or Portland State for Winter term. Students who earned low grades or did not finish FRINQ courses represented the range of academic majors on campus. While the program has been collecting quantitative information about student success and retention for the last two years, faculty and mentors, people who have direct insight into the reasons students aren’t successful, had not been asked for their thoughts.
Page 21. Summer/Fall 2005 peerReview AAC&U 21 TThe participation of Portland State Univer... more Page 21. Summer/Fall 2005 peerReview AAC&U 21 TThe participation of Portland State University (PSU) in a three-year Integrated Learning Project (ILP) cosponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of ...
With the emergence of "cultural studies" and the blurring of once-clear academic bounda... more With the emergence of "cultural studies" and the blurring of once-clear academic boundaries, scholars are turning to subjects far outside their traditional disciplines and areas of expertise. In Higher Superstition scientists Paul Gross and Norman Levitt raise serious questions about the growing criticism of science by humanists and social scientists on the "academic left".
In vitro fertilization, in its first 5 years of use, has met minimum standards for efficacy and s... more In vitro fertilization, in its first 5 years of use, has met minimum standards for efficacy and safety, as judged by published clinical reports. It is becoming more widely available as an approach for overcoming sterility in married couples and appears also to be gaining social acceptance in that context. Several technical options presented by the procedure, particularly storage of frozen embryos and embryo transfers involving third-party contributions, are less fully evaluated clinically and raise social, ethical, and legal questions that go beyond the original medical model for therapeutic intervention. The clinical success of in vitro fertilization and the options it affords call for careful policy consideration. Estimates of costs and of potential demand for and supply of services are provided and the current status of relevant policy in the United States and abroad is discussed.
This article has briefly reviewed the range of public policy issues and ethical questions raised ... more This article has briefly reviewed the range of public policy issues and ethical questions raised with respect to IVF. It then discussed selected issues that are now under policy debate and decision. Given the wide acceptance of IVF as a medical procedure for married couples, what variants might also be ethically defensible? IVF for unmarried couples appears defensible under specific conditions that are equally applicable to married couples. Involvement of third parties (gamete donation and gestational surrogacy) is more complex and needs case by case examination. Sperm donation appears to generate little that is ethically new when coupled with IVF but requires the same care and concern as AID. Egg or embryo donation, however, does raise new ethical questions that need close attention and continuing analysis. Freezing of human embryos also breaks new ethical ground, particularly in the options it generates beyond a narrowly defined medical domain. Certain of these options are better ...
O n February 6, 1984, a new page was added to the short but contentious history of gene therapy i... more O n February 6, 1984, a new page was added to the short but contentious history of gene therapy in human beings when the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) approved a recommendation for final guidelines for ...
1. Donna Haraway's Modest_Witness@ Second_Millennium is a complex, wonderfully dizzying ... more 1. Donna Haraway's Modest_Witness@ Second_Millennium is a complex, wonderfully dizzying meditation on the strangely political world of technoscience, molecular biology, and feminist science studies. It is also a call for responsibility in the face of what Haraway calls ...
... underpinnings of mature brain function or neural disorder. Now it is also important to know w... more ... underpinnings of mature brain function or neural disorder. Now it is also important to know when the fetus is likely to become sentient, feel pain, and register intrauterine experience. Further, some (Golden-ring, 1982; Veatch, 1983) have ...
In vitro fertilization, in its first 5 years of use, has met minimum standards for efficacy and s... more In vitro fertilization, in its first 5 years of use, has met minimum standards for efficacy and safety, as judged by published clinical reports. It is becoming more widely available as an approach for overcoming sterility in married couples and appears also to be gaining social acceptance in that context. Several technical options presented by the procedure, particularly storage of frozen embryos and embryo transfers involving third-party contributions, are less fully evaluated clinically and raise social, ethical, and legal questions that go beyond the original medical model for therapeutic intervention. The clinical success of in vitro fertilization and the options it affords call for careful policy consideration. Estimates of costs and of potential demand for and supply of services are provided and the current status of relevant policy in the United States and abroad is discussed.
The public debate on recombinant DNA research has ended even though significant issues of public ... more The public debate on recombinant DNA research has ended even though significant issues of public interest remain undecided or untouched. The reason for the termination of other than muted public discussion is not simply the removal of an initial fear of catastrophic biohazards. With the cessation of public debate over such hazards came also the dissolution of most public forums. The ends to which recombinant DNA research and development ought to be directed are not matters of public debate. With the transfer of basic research knowledge to the private sector, that sector's proprietary interests and ownership prerogatives effectively deny any continued public participation in charting the future of genesplicing technology and its application.
Abstract: Examines two positions in the debate on how best to teach science to undergraduates: sc... more Abstract: Examines two positions in the debate on how best to teach science to undergraduates: science literacy for all students and doing science as science is done. Notes the reform efforts of Project Kaleidoscope and the Science Education for New Civic ...
Bruno Latour is one of the founding figures in social network theory and a broadly influential sy... more Bruno Latour is one of the founding figures in social network theory and a broadly influential systems thinker. Although his work has always been relational, little scholarship has engaged the relational morality, ontology, and epistemology of feminist care ethics with Latour's actor-network theory. This article is intended as a translation and a prompt to spur further interactions. Latour's recent publications, in particular, have focused on the new climate regime of the Anthropocene. Care theorists are just beginning to address posthuman approaches to care. The argument here is that Latourian analysis is helpful for such explorations, given that caring for the earth and its inhabitants is the dire moral challenge of our time. The aim here is not to characterize Latour as a care theorist but rather as a provocative scholar who has much to say that is significant to care thinking. We begin with a brief introduction to Latour's scholarship and lexicon, followed by a discussion of care theorist Puig de la Bellacasa's work on Latour. We then explore recent work on care and the environment consistent with a Latourian approach. The conclusion reinforces the notion that valuing relationality across humans and non-human matter is essential to confronting the Anthropocene.
At the beginning of Winter term 2010, Freshman Inquiry faculty and mentors were invited to a seri... more At the beginning of Winter term 2010, Freshman Inquiry faculty and mentors were invited to a series of conversations about the students in their courses who had earned poor grades fall term (D, F, W or I) or had not returned to Freshman Inquiry or Portland State for Winter term. Students who earned low grades or did not finish FRINQ courses represented the range of academic majors on campus. While the program has been collecting quantitative information about student success and retention for the last two years, faculty and mentors, people who have direct insight into the reasons students aren’t successful, had not been asked for their thoughts.
Page 21. Summer/Fall 2005 peerReview AAC&U 21 TThe participation of Portland State Univer... more Page 21. Summer/Fall 2005 peerReview AAC&U 21 TThe participation of Portland State University (PSU) in a three-year Integrated Learning Project (ILP) cosponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of ...
With the emergence of "cultural studies" and the blurring of once-clear academic bounda... more With the emergence of "cultural studies" and the blurring of once-clear academic boundaries, scholars are turning to subjects far outside their traditional disciplines and areas of expertise. In Higher Superstition scientists Paul Gross and Norman Levitt raise serious questions about the growing criticism of science by humanists and social scientists on the "academic left".
In vitro fertilization, in its first 5 years of use, has met minimum standards for efficacy and s... more In vitro fertilization, in its first 5 years of use, has met minimum standards for efficacy and safety, as judged by published clinical reports. It is becoming more widely available as an approach for overcoming sterility in married couples and appears also to be gaining social acceptance in that context. Several technical options presented by the procedure, particularly storage of frozen embryos and embryo transfers involving third-party contributions, are less fully evaluated clinically and raise social, ethical, and legal questions that go beyond the original medical model for therapeutic intervention. The clinical success of in vitro fertilization and the options it affords call for careful policy consideration. Estimates of costs and of potential demand for and supply of services are provided and the current status of relevant policy in the United States and abroad is discussed.
This article has briefly reviewed the range of public policy issues and ethical questions raised ... more This article has briefly reviewed the range of public policy issues and ethical questions raised with respect to IVF. It then discussed selected issues that are now under policy debate and decision. Given the wide acceptance of IVF as a medical procedure for married couples, what variants might also be ethically defensible? IVF for unmarried couples appears defensible under specific conditions that are equally applicable to married couples. Involvement of third parties (gamete donation and gestational surrogacy) is more complex and needs case by case examination. Sperm donation appears to generate little that is ethically new when coupled with IVF but requires the same care and concern as AID. Egg or embryo donation, however, does raise new ethical questions that need close attention and continuing analysis. Freezing of human embryos also breaks new ethical ground, particularly in the options it generates beyond a narrowly defined medical domain. Certain of these options are better ...
O n February 6, 1984, a new page was added to the short but contentious history of gene therapy i... more O n February 6, 1984, a new page was added to the short but contentious history of gene therapy in human beings when the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) approved a recommendation for final guidelines for ...
1. Donna Haraway's Modest_Witness@ Second_Millennium is a complex, wonderfully dizzying ... more 1. Donna Haraway's Modest_Witness@ Second_Millennium is a complex, wonderfully dizzying meditation on the strangely political world of technoscience, molecular biology, and feminist science studies. It is also a call for responsibility in the face of what Haraway calls ...
... underpinnings of mature brain function or neural disorder. Now it is also important to know w... more ... underpinnings of mature brain function or neural disorder. Now it is also important to know when the fetus is likely to become sentient, feel pain, and register intrauterine experience. Further, some (Golden-ring, 1982; Veatch, 1983) have ...
In vitro fertilization, in its first 5 years of use, has met minimum standards for efficacy and s... more In vitro fertilization, in its first 5 years of use, has met minimum standards for efficacy and safety, as judged by published clinical reports. It is becoming more widely available as an approach for overcoming sterility in married couples and appears also to be gaining social acceptance in that context. Several technical options presented by the procedure, particularly storage of frozen embryos and embryo transfers involving third-party contributions, are less fully evaluated clinically and raise social, ethical, and legal questions that go beyond the original medical model for therapeutic intervention. The clinical success of in vitro fertilization and the options it affords call for careful policy consideration. Estimates of costs and of potential demand for and supply of services are provided and the current status of relevant policy in the United States and abroad is discussed.
The public debate on recombinant DNA research has ended even though significant issues of public ... more The public debate on recombinant DNA research has ended even though significant issues of public interest remain undecided or untouched. The reason for the termination of other than muted public discussion is not simply the removal of an initial fear of catastrophic biohazards. With the cessation of public debate over such hazards came also the dissolution of most public forums. The ends to which recombinant DNA research and development ought to be directed are not matters of public debate. With the transfer of basic research knowledge to the private sector, that sector's proprietary interests and ownership prerogatives effectively deny any continued public participation in charting the future of genesplicing technology and its application.
Abstract: Examines two positions in the debate on how best to teach science to undergraduates: sc... more Abstract: Examines two positions in the debate on how best to teach science to undergraduates: science literacy for all students and doing science as science is done. Notes the reform efforts of Project Kaleidoscope and the Science Education for New Civic ...
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