PhD Jacquelyne Luce

geb. am 13.03.1971 in Montreal, Canada

Jacquelyne Luce, a medical and cultural anthropologist, received her PhD in 2002 from York University in Toronto. She then held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship at Lancaster University, UK, followed by an appointment as a Research Associate at the Centre for Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences in Newcastle, UK. She joined the Karl Mannheim Chair for Cultural Studies at Zeppelin University in May 2006, leading the research on an EU project called Knowledge NBIC until 2009. From November 2008 to June 2009, she was a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow at the Research Centre on Biotechnology, Society and the Environment. From 2009 to 2012, she coordinated a European Science in Society research project, HealthGovMatters. She has held visiting teaching appointments at prestigious colleges and universities, such as Mount Holyoke College, Dartmouth College and the University of Massachusetts.

Staats- und Gesellschaftswissenschaften

Hauptforschungsgebiete

Jacquelyne Luce's current research focuses on the co-constitution of health knowledge and the govermance of medical research with a particular emphasis on knowledge politics, converging technologies and technological convergences. Her particular areas of focus in this area are genetic testing, nanotechnologies, stem cell research, novel therapeutics and gene therapy. She has conducted qualitative and ethnographic research on assisted conception, egg and embryo donation for research purposes, pregnancy loss and midwifery integration. She is particularly interested in feminist health politics, civil society engagement in and with science, and narratives of health, disability and technology.

Wichtige Publikationen

Luce, J. (2010): Beyond Expectation: Lesbian/Bi/Queer Women and Assisted Conception. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada. Luce, J. and Giorgi, L. (Eds.) (2009): Special Issue: Knowledge Politics and Converging Technologies. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 22 (1). Giorgi, L. and Luce, J. (Eds.) (2007): Special Issue: Converging Science and Technologies: Research Trajectories and Institutional Settings. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 20 (4). Luce, J. (2005): Shelley’s Story: A Narrative of Pregnancy Loss. In: Gendered Intersections: Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies, Eds. C. L. Biggs and Downe, P. J.. Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing, 144-148. Luce, J. (2004): Imaging Bodies, Imagining Relations: Narratives of Queer Women and ‘Assisted Conception.’ Journal of Medical Humanities 25(1): 47-56.

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