Hybrids, hermaphrodites, and sex metamorphoses : Gendered anxieties and sex testing in elite sport , 1937-1968

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Afterword: TERF Wars in the time of COVID-19

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Hormonal stories: a new materialist exploration of hormonal emplotment in four case studies

Hormones are complex biosocial objects that provoke myriad cultural narratives through their association with social activities and identities, and these narratives have the power to shape people’s lived realities and bodies. While hormones were historically conceptualised as ‘master molecules’ capable of controlling various life processes, their explanatory potential has now been overshadowed by technoscientific developments like omics- and gene-based biotechnologies that have reframed how human bodies and behaviours are understood. Considering these shifts, this paper asks what roles hormones perform and what stories they are arousing today. Through a patchwork of four hormone stories about contraception, gender hacking, birth, and autism-specific horse therapy, we show how hormones remain vital protagonists in the constitution of bodies, affects, environments, places, politics, and selves in the contemporary period. Building on new materialist approaches, we adopt and extend the notion of ‘emplotment’ to encapsulate how hormones act as key characters in our plots. They are working to complicate dominant understandings of what bodies are and can be in new ways as they mediate different plots of bodily experience, in ways showing the ongoing powerful salience of hormones and their ascendancy in the present

Beyond the Hype:‘Acceptable Futures’ for AI and Robotic Technologies in Healthcare

Acknowledgements For the purpose of open access, the authors have applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. The authors would also like to thank the interviewees who gave up their time to participate in this study. Funding This research was funded in whole by the Wellcome Trust [213643/Z/18/Z].Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Marketing Experimental Stem Cell Therapies in the UK: Biomedical Lifestyle Products and the Promise of Regenerative Medicine in the Digital Era

Funding We acknowledge the support of the Wellcome Trust in funding the Seed Award ‘Patienthood and Participation in the Digital Era’ (grant number 201652/Z/16/Z); research on this project contributed to the writing of this paper.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

How and why to use ‘vulnerability’ : An interdisciplinary analysis of disease risk, indeterminacy, and normality

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