Contributors
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Marc Berg is Associate Professor at the Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His current research focuses on ICT in health care practices, touching on issues such as standardization, the configuration of the patient, and the transformation of hierarchies. His publications include Rationalizing Medical Work: Decision Support Techniques and Medical Practices (MIT Press, 1997), and Differences in Medicine: Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies (Duke University Press), with Annemarie Mol. With Stefan Timmermans, he is currently finishing a book on standardization in medical work.
John Law is Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at Lancaster University, UK. Using actor-network theory and approaches from poststructuralism, feminist theory, and cultural studies, he has written widely on technologies, organizations, spatialities, subjectivities, and power. His recent publications include Actor Network Theory and After (jointly edited). He is currently working on medical, disability, and health-related technologies and processes. Particular studies include diabetes self-management (jointly with Annemarie Mol), the management of alcoholic liver disease (jointly with Vicky Singleton), and assistive technologies for disabled people (jointly with Ingunn Moser). He may be contacted at j.law@lancaster.ac.uk and his home page is http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/jlaw.html
Brian Lennon is a doctoral candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is working on a series of essays about contemporary poetry and information technologies.
Amâde A. M'charek is Assistant Professor in the Science and Technology Dynamics Department at the University of Amsterdam. She also occupies a position as a junior researcher in molecular genetics in the Department of Human Genetics at the Leiden University Medical Center, where she works on a project [End Page 163] concerned with genetic diversity among the Dutch. She has studied social sciences, and is currently finishing her Ph.D. thesis on the Human Genome Diversity Project.
Michelle Murphy is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her article in this issue is part of a larger project entitled, Sick Buildings and Sick Bodies: Gender, Chemical Injury, and the Politics of Illness in the Ordinary Spaces of Late Capitalism. She is currently at work on a study of the feminist self-help movement.
Stefan Timmermans is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University. His research interests include standardization, death and dying, medical technology, and sociology of the body. His book, Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR, was published by Temple University Press (1999). He is currently working on an ethnography of medical examiners.
Ann Weinstone is a doctoral candidate in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. She is currently completing a dissertation titled, Universe City or the Risk of Posthumanism. [End Page 164]
