Cold is indispensable when preserving breast milk for later use in ordinary breastfeeding
practices and, in addition to other devices such as the breast pump, fridges and freezers …

The Spanish reproductive bioeconomy has bloomed in the last few decades. There are now
over three hundred fertility clinics in Spain, which has become one of the main destinations …

This paper critically examines hybridity and complexity in human biobanking, focusing on
current forms of human milk banking in Madrid (Spain). We present and analyze three …

En nuestro artículo queremos explorar la dimensión plástica de los objetos, su
relacionalidad, su ser más bien “objeto-frontera”(Leigh Star y Griesemer, 1989) y la forma …

The dominant narrative in bioethical and biomedical literature criticises private/family cord
blood banking as selling a biomedical service that challenges the system of public banks …

The oscillation between the promise and the disappointment of biobanks as techno‐
scientific infrastructures for contemporary biomedical research is frequent in the literature. In …

In this paper we present some of the main ideas and conclusions of our last two research
projects, which have analysed in depth several case studies around the increasing …

We present the research trajectory and current projects of the Science, Technology and
Gender research group of Madrid, an interdisciplinary team composed of philosophers of …