... researchers build these cognitive-cultural artifacts enables understanding how culture is built into cognitive processes in science and vice versa. biomedical engineering distributed cognition epistemic values ethnography interdisciplinarity ...

... biomedical engineering distributed cognition epistemic values ethnography interdisciplinarity ...

... and cognitive-historical studies of laboratories in the bioengineering sciences to examine how cognition and culture are intimately entwined in research practices. It focuses on the hybrid physical simulation models (“devices”) through which biomedical engineers conduct in vitro experiments on selected aspects...

... The epilogue returns to the ethical quandaries of a technology that, by seeking a pluripotent fate, may indeed open us up to a multitude of “unknown unknowns.” The author contrasts the two Asian models of biomedical entrepreneurialism. Biopolis deploys the ethnic heuristic to shape a transborder...

...The Chain of Health Care Drivers This chapter examines two components of biomedical research from which therapies emerge: the phenomenon of evidence-based medicine and the business of clinical trials. These are the apparatuses of truth making in medicine. They define what counts as “good...