Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
Bie Nio Ong and Caroline Sanders
…Health service settings are increasingly installing digital devices to enable people to engage digitally with multiple processes, including automated ‘check-in’, as well
Science, Technology, & Human Values
Participation in Citizen Science: Insights from the CONECT-e Case Study
Petra Benyei, Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Laura Aceituno-Mata, Laura Calvet-Mir, María Carrascosa-García, Marta Rivera-Ferre, Antonio Perdomo-Molina, Victoria Reyes-García
…Citizen science (CS) is growing quickly, given its potential to enhance knowledge coproduction by diverse participants, generating large and global data sets. However, uneven participation in CS is still an important concern. This work aims to
Marc Winz & Ola Söderström
…Epidemiological research in psychiatry has established robust evidence of the link between urban living and psychosis, but the situated experience of the city, as well as the precise ecology of psychosis remain largely unexplored.
Hostile environments? Down’s syndrome and genetic screening in contemporary culture (open access)
Lucy Burke
…This essay explores the complex entanglement of new reproductive technologies, genetics, health economics, rights-based discourses and ethical considerations of the value of human life with particular reference to representations of Down’s syndrome and the identification of trisomy 21. Prompted by the debates that have
This month’s highlight – just going open source on Global Public Heath:
COVID19 and the political geography of racialization in the US (open access)
Ryan Whitacre, Adeola Oni-Orisan, Nadia Gaber, Carlos Martinez, Liza Buchbinder, Denise Herd & Seth M. Holmes
…The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed health systems around the globe, and intensified the lethality of social and political inequality. In
Here’s the second part of the round-up for April. Enjoy!
Jérôme Ronchetti, Anthony Terriau
…Despite its increasing use, little is known about the effect of electronic cigarette. This study estimates the impact of the use of electronic cigarettes