Edited by Phillip Thurtle, University of Washington, and Robert Mitchell, Duke University

We would like to draw your attention to a new book series in the social, historical, and literary studies of science and technology offered by the University of Washington Press. In Vivo: The Cultural Meditations of Biomedical Science is an interdisciplinary series dedicated to studying the medical and life sciences by concentrating on the practices and mediums used to process data, model knowledge, and communicate about biomedical science. We are very interested in interdisciplinary approaches combining literary studies, film studies, new media, art, art history, history, or social theory for this exciting new venture.

The last few decades of the twentieth century and the first few years of the twenty-first have winessed the proliferation of biomedial technologies. Stem cell research, human cloning, reproductive technologies, and new partnerships between private and publicly funded research are now a constant feature of headline news. Because of this, there is a growing need to understand the social, cultural, and humanistic implications of these new technologies and the social forces that helped actualize them.

In Vivo will publish historical analysis that places current biomedical research into economic, social, political, and cultural context. It will publish humanistic studies that elucidate the larger conceptual issues at stake in biomedical technologies and practices. And it will publish social scientific work that can then evaluate social theoretical models for understanding and assessing recent biomedical developments. Perhaps most importantly of all, it will actively encourage scholars to think in longer time frames about the relationship of social and cultural foundations to biomedical practices.

Specific subjects could include the uses of rhetoric in biomedical research and applications, the use of film in medical analyses, changes in conceptions of human embodiment resulting from changes in representational practices, the application of virtual reality technologies to medicine, the relationship of genomics to informational processing, or the institutions and rhetorical "technologies" that enable organ donation in a consumer society.

For details, please contact Phillip Thurtle, thurtle@u.washington.edu, or Robert Mitchell, rmitch@duke.edu

Advisory board: Timothy Lenoir, Stanford University; Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, Max-Planck-Institut fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Priscilla Wald, Duke University; Catherine Waldby, Brunel University; Kathleen Woodward, University of Washington