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Record W2942747257 · doi:10.1017/9781139644938.005

The Anthropology of Biology: A Lesson from the New Kinship Studies

2019· book-chapter· en· W2942747257 on OpenAlexaff
Sarah Franklin

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2019
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicRace, Genetics, and Society
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsKinshipAnthropologySociology

Abstract

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A combination of infl uences over the past few decades has steadily raised the profi le of the anthropology of bioscience and biomedicine, and this fi eld has now become a well-established subdiscipline. 1 This new fi eld has several antecedents.The move within the discipline towards greater refl exivity and the critiques of various kinds of ethnocentrism contributed to the emergence of bioscience as a subject of anthropological study in the 1990s -a transition that was aided by the emergence of the human genome project as a source of both ethical uncertainty and funding for research into its ethical, social, and legal implications (Franklin 1995 ).Anthropological interest in new reproductive technologies in this same period further encouraged a more critical engagement with biological models of "natural facts" (Strathern 1992a(Strathern , 1992b ) ), and Sandra Bamford's ( 2007 ) pioneering account of a society in which physiological explanations of conception play only a minimal role in understandings of both reproduction and kinship has offered a distinctive foil against which to contrast a Euro-American emphasis on biology that has increasingly come to be seen as extreme.At the same time it has remained unclear precisely how biological and physiological explanations function in contemporary society, since they are at once apparently literal and yet are often employed in ways that are self-evidently fi gurative (Franklin 2003 ;Nelkin and Lindee 1995 ).The dual quality of biological explanations also appears as a difference between what people say and what they do (many couples emphasize the importance of having a biological child of their own but will use a variety of means to achieve this end, including other people's eggs and sperm, Thompson 2005 ).Another striking and well-documented distinction is the considerable difference between how Core terms of use, available at https://www.

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.999
Threshold uncertainty score0.027

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.007
Scholarly communication0.0020.004
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.255
Teacher spread0.222 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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