The language and conceptual framework of “research reproducibility” are nonstandard and
unsettled across the sciences. In this Perspective, we review an array of explicit and implicit …

What does it mean to personalise cancer medicine? Personalised cancer medicine explores
this question by foregrounding the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners in the …

Sharon R. Kaufman examines the quandary of patients, families and doctors not knowing
the point where enough medical treatment becomes too much treatment. A hidden chain of …

This article proposes to get rid of the vain opposition between markets as de-socializing
forces and markets as civilizing processes by exploring the close relationship between …

We propose a framework to describe, analyze, and explain the conditions under which
scientific communities organize themselves to do research, particularly within large-scale …

The distributed and global nature of data science creates challenges for evaluating the
quality, import and potential impact of the data and knowledge claims being produced. This …

The range and types of performance metrics has recently proliferated in academic settings,
with bibliometric indicators being particularly visible examples. One field that has …

The logic of domains has become a key organizing principle for contemporary computing
projects and in broader science policy. The logic parses collectives of expertise into …

In Explaining Cancer, Anya Plutynski addresses a variety of philosophical questions that
arise in the context of cancer science and medicine. She begins with the following …

Biomedicine is often presented as the driving force behind improvements in cancer care,
with genomics the latest innovation poised to change the meaning, diagnosis, treatment …