Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Impure Cultures -- Traversing the Conceptual Terrain -- Braided Paths: The Intertwined Development of Biocontrol Research and Agro-Industry -- (Un)Intended Consequences: Commercially Produced Research Materials and the Transformation of...

Efforts to understand the structure of the emerging knowledge economy have paid particular attention to the shifting boundary between academic and commercial (for-profit) research, especially in life sciences. Yet, empirical studies have tended to adopt a segmented approach, focusing on either...

This paper explores the decontextualization of mental illness in psychiatric drug advertisements. Taking the portrayal of work in several drug advertisements which appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry* as the object of our analysis, we show how these ads tend to individualize mental...

The history of attention to local variation in science and technology studies notwithstanding, there is a growing emphasis in the study of science policy on global convergence. In this paper, we undertake a multi-state comparative study of agricultural biotechnology policies, illustrating the...