All Outputs (5)

New Bikes for the Old (2019)
Journal Article
Lassen, A. J., & Moreira, T. (2020). New Bikes for the Old. Science & Technology Studies, 33(3), 39-56. https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.77239

In the last 15 years, STS has established a research programme focused on the sociotechnical reconfiguration of later life, particularly as new political programmes aim to deploy ‘active ageing’ in contemporary societies. In Denmark, the bicycle is a... Read More about New Bikes for the Old.

First report the findings: genuine balance when reporting CTE (2019)
Journal Article
Casper, S. T., Golden, J., Oreskes, N., Largent, M., Goldberg, D. S., Gillett, G., …Brown, M. (2019). First report the findings: genuine balance when reporting CTE. The Lancet Neurology, 18(6), 522-523. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1474-4422%2819%2930158-9

Anticipatory measure: Alex Comfort, experimental gerontology and the measurement of senescence (2019)
Journal Article
Moreira, T. (2019). Anticipatory measure: Alex Comfort, experimental gerontology and the measurement of senescence. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 77, Article 101179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2019.101179

Ageing is routinely measured by counting the number of years lived since the birth of an individual but at least since at least the 1930s, the validity, precision and sensitivity of chronological age as a measure has been criticised across the biolog... Read More about Anticipatory measure: Alex Comfort, experimental gerontology and the measurement of senescence.

Metrics in Global Health: Situated differences in the valuation of human life (2019)
Journal Article
Maldonado, O., & Moreira, T. (2019). Metrics in Global Health: Situated differences in the valuation of human life. Historical social research. Supplement (Köln), 44(2), 202-224. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.44.2019.2.202-224

This paper explores the role of knowledge, standards, and metrics in global health. Our point of departure is the observation that the emergence of ‘global health’ as a domain of research, policy, and practice in the last three decades or so has coin... Read More about Metrics in Global Health: Situated differences in the valuation of human life.

Devicing future populations: Problematizing the relationship between quantity and quality of life (2019)
Journal Article
Moreira, T. (2019). Devicing future populations: Problematizing the relationship between quantity and quality of life. Social Studies of Science, 49(1), 118-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312719829841

Taking as point of departure the claim that, in late modern societies, there has been shift from a focus on producing measures of life and death towards metrics of health and disability, this paper investigates how, through what means and processes w... Read More about Devicing future populations: Problematizing the relationship between quantity and quality of life.