All Outputs (2)

Experimenting in the Biosocial: The Strange Case of Twin Research (2017)
Book Chapter
Viney, W. (2017). Experimenting in the Biosocial: The Strange Case of Twin Research. In M. Meloni, J. Cromby, D. Fitzgerald, & S. Lloyd (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of biology and society (143-166). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52879-7_7

In this chapter, I explore how twin research has been used to prove and disprove divisions between biology and environment. The history of using twins in biomedical research has lessons for understanding how human groups interact with scientific ende... Read More about Experimenting in the Biosocial: The Strange Case of Twin Research.

Critical Medical Humanities: Embracing Entanglement, Taking Risks (2015)
Journal Article
Viney, W., Callard, F., & Woods, A. (2015). Critical Medical Humanities: Embracing Entanglement, Taking Risks. Medical Humanities, 41(1), 2-7. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2015-010692

What can the medical humanities achieve? This paper does not seek to define what is meant by the medical humanities, nor to adjudicate the exact disciplinary or interdisciplinary knowledges it should offer, but rather to consider what it might be cap... Read More about Critical Medical Humanities: Embracing Entanglement, Taking Risks.