Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2014

In this issue (11 articles)

1. 

   Introduction

   Evidence-based activism: Patients’, users’ and activists’ groups in knowledge society

   Vololona Rabeharisoa, Tiago Moreira, Madeleine Akrich Pages 111-128

2. 

   Original Article

   Practising childbirth activism: A politics of evidence

   Madeleine Akrich, Máire Leane, Celia Roberts, João Arriscado Nunes Pages 129-152

3. 

   Original Article

   Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in France and Ireland: Parents’ groups’ scientific and political framing of an unsettled condition

   Claire Edwards, Etaoine Howlett, Madeleine Akrich, Vololona Rabeharisoa Pages 153-172

4. 

   Original Article

   Assembling dementia care: Patient organisations and social research

   Tiago Moreira, Orla O'Donovan, Etaoine Howlett Pages 173-193

5. 

   Original Article

   From ‘politics of numbers’ to ‘politics of singularisation’: Patients’ activism and engagement in research on rare diseases in France and Portugal

   Vololona Rabeharisoa, Michel Callon, Angela Marques Filipe… Pages 194-217

6. Books Forum Introduction

   Lessons and conversions: Reading across disciplinary boundaries

   Nicolas Langlitz Page 218

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7. 

   Books Forum

   Science & fabrications: On synthetic biology

   Anthony Stavrianakis, Gaymon Bennett Pages 219-223

8. Books Forum

   Birds as sentinels for pandemic influenza

   Frédéric Keck Pages 223-225

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9. 

   Books Forum

   Twins, nature and nurture

   Alison Cool Pages 225-227

10. 

    Books Forum

    Discarding boundaries of flesh and sign: A bio-focused anthropologist absorbs Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto

    Agustín Fuentes Pages 228-229

11. 

    Books Forum

    Books of conversion

    Felix Hasler Pages 230-231