Book Review of Casper Bruun Jensen, Ontologies for Developing Things

Authors

  • Juan Felipe Espinosa-Cristia Management of Science, Technology & Knowledge Group, School of Administration, Ken Edwards Building, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK Escuela de Comercio, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Avenida Brasil 2830, Edificio Monseñor Gimpert 6º piso. Valparaíso, Chile.

Keywords:

ontology, technology, innovation, novelties

Abstract

Casper Bruun Jensen's volume is located broadly in Science and Technology Studies (STS), and more specifically in the area of healthcare technologies studies. One of the central interests of the book is that it offers an open-ended invitation to break the traditional compartmentalization that exists between the theory-oriented humanities and the empirical-oriented social sciences. It does so by focusing on 'practical ontologies', at once conceptual and empirical, which emerge as health care technologies are envisioned, developed and deployed in diverse settings of Danish and Canadian health care. Through a series of analyses, centering on different empirical and analytical themes, including the making of health care futures, the analysis of technology and power, and the question of STS and 'intervention', the author presents convincing examples of how scholars working STS and adjacent fields might embrace new spaces of methodological and theoretical experimentation. 

Author Biography

  • Juan Felipe Espinosa-Cristia, Management of Science, Technology & Knowledge Group, School of Administration, Ken Edwards Building, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK Escuela de Comercio, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Avenida Brasil 2830, Edificio Monseñor Gimpert 6º piso. Valparaíso, Chile.

    My academic interest are related with Science and Technology Studies, Social Studies of Markets and Organizational Studies.

    I live and work in the city of Valparaíso (Chile)

    Personal Site: https://pucv.academia.edu/JuanFelipeEspinosa

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Published

2014-11-26

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Book Reviews

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