Overview of dissertations 2005-2011

 

Author and title of dissertation

 

 

E. Aarden                              

Politics of provision. The co-production of genetic technologies and heatth care arrangements in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

 

 

W. Boon

Demanding dynamics. Demand articulation of intermediary organizations in emerging pharmaceutical innovations.

 

 

E. Deibel

Common Genomes. On open source in biology & critical theory beyond the patent.

 

 

S. van Egmond

Science and Policy in Interaction - On practices of Science Policy Interactions for policy-making in health care

 

 

J. Ganzevles

Technologie voor Mens en Milieu. Een actor-netwerk analyse van de ontwikkeling van energietechnologie voor woningen. 

 

 

A. van Gorp

Ethical issues in engineering design. Safety and sustainability.

 

 

M. van Hemert

Making rivers modular. Emerging river science 1980-2005.

 

 

M. te Hennepe

Depicting skin. Visual culture in nineteenth-century medicine.

 

 

L.K. Hessels

Science and the Struggle for Relevance

 

 

 T. van Kleffens

Decision making in clinical oncology. An ethical exploration of cancer treatment refusal.

 

 

S. van ‘t Klooster

Toekomstverkenning: ambities en de praktijk. Een etnografische studie naar de productie van toekomstkennis bij het Ruimtelijke Planbureau.

 

 

M. Lauwaert

On toys, technological innovations and geographies of play.

 

 

S. Leonelli

Weed for thought. Using Arabidopsis thaliana to understand plant biology.

 

 

N. Marres

No issue, no public. Democratic deficits after the displacement of politics.

 

 

R.van Merkerk

Intervening in emerging nanotechnologies. A CTA of lab-on-a-chip technology.

 

 

F. Merkx

Organizing responsibilities for novelties in medical genetic.

 

 

I. Meijer

Uncertainty and entrepreneurial action. The role of uncertainty in the development of emerging energy technologies.

 

 

F. van der Most

Research councils facing new science and technology. The case of nanotechnology in Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland.

 

 

R. Nahuis

The politics of innovation in public transport. Issues, settings and displacement.

 

 

S. Negro

Dynamics of Technological Innovation Systems: The case of biomass energy.

 

 

M. Noorman

Mind the gap: A critique of human/technology analogies in artificial agents discourse.

 

 

B. Penders

From seeking health to finding healths: The politics of large-scale cooperation in nutrition science.

 

A.C. Petersen

Simulating nature: A philosophical study of computer-simulation uncertainties and their role in climate science and policy advice.

 

 

D. Puente Rodriguez

Redesigning Genomics - Reconstructing Societies: Local Sustainable Biotechnological Developments

 

J. Quartz

Constructing Agrarian Alternatives; how a creative dissent project engages with the vulnerable livelihood of marginal farmers in South India

 

M. Radstake

Vision of illness: An endography of real-time medical imaging.

 

 

D.K.R. Robinson

Constructive Technology Assessment of Newly Emerging Nanotechnologies: Experiments in Interactions.

 

 

S. de Rijcke

Regarding the brain: Practices of objectivity in cerebral imaging, 17th century – present.

 

 

V. van Saaze

Doing artworks: A study into the presentation and conservation of installation artworks.

 

D. Schuurbiers

Social Responsibility in Research Practice. Engaging applied scientists wih the socio-ethical context of their work

 

 

R. Suurs

Motors of sustainable innovation: Towards a theory on the dynamics of technological innovation systems.

 

  

S. Stoop

Constructive TA of ICT in command & control systems.

 

 

G. Valkenburg

Politics by all means: An enquiry into technological liberalism.

 

 

R. Vandenberg

Innovation through collaboration: Interactive learning in nutrigenomics consortia.

 

 

S. Verhaegh

How community innovation works. A material-semiotic analysis of the wireless Leiden wi-fi network

 

 

N. Vermeulen

Supersizing science: On building large-scale research projects in biology.

 

 

W. Vroom

Reflexive biotechnology development: Studying plant breeding technologies and genomics for agriculture in the developing World.

 

 

T. Zuiderent-Jerak

Standardizing healthcare practices: Experimental interventions in medicine and science and technology studies.