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The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods: The Pro- and Antibiotic Implications of Cultivated Meat and Aquaponic Farming

As conventional agricultural practices reach their limits, humanity is turning to innovative methods of food production. Using Heather Paxson’s concept of microbiopolitics (2012) as a framework that highlights how microbial life is integrated into social governance, particularly in food production and safety, this article explores the role of microbes in cultivated meat and aquaponic farming. It examines how researchers and producers engage with microbes and considers the potential scenarios of human-microbi…

Topics: Technology and society, Public health, Environment

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

The collective gut: rational nutrition and the expert visions for the socialist nutritional modernity

This article explores the notion of rational nutrition that constituted the core of nutritional expertise in socialist Czechoslovakia and the modes of nutritional modernity it encompassed. The study draws on an analysis of issues published between 1946 and 1986 of the journal People and Nutrition, which was founded by the Czechoslovak Society for Rational Nutrition to disseminate expert knowledge among both the expert community and the public. Drawing on Hannah Landecker’s notion of industrial metabolism and…

Topics: Sociology of Sciences, Technology and society, Public health

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Caring for more-than-human metabolic health: Self-tracking technologies as tools of calculation and communication in obesity and type 1 diabetes care

This article draws on the findings of ongoing ethnographic research to examine the use of self-tracking devices and the embodiment of numerical data in type 1 diabetes (T1D) and obesity (self)care. We engage the notion of industrial and post-industrial metabolism as proposed by Hannah Landecker (2013) to explore the technologically mediated, more-than-human dynamics of metabolic health. While studies tend to depict self-monitoring devices as reinforcing a rigid, mechanistic, and control-obsessed approach to bo…

Topics: Care, Public health, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Národní kontaktní centrum - gender a věda

“This doctor knows shit about you, but the first thing he says is, ‘you need to lose some weight’”: Anti-fat bias and the contradictory effects of fat medicalization in Czech healthcare

The anti-fat bias that is built on the premised principle antagonism between a fat and a healthy body remains entrenched in healthcare. Despite evidence that being fat is conditioned by many factors beyond a person’s control, fatness is often seen as a result of irresponsible behavior and moral failure and fat patients report being exposed to mistreatment, discrimination, and shaming in healthcare. Drawing on semi-structured interviews and written testimonies, we examine the experiences of people with fat em…

Topics: Care, Public health, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Nutritional Practices and Experiences of People on Vegan Diet with Healthcare System: A Qualitative Study

Objectives: The growing popularity of diets that restrict the consumption of animal-based foods is an important new challenge for the public healthcare system in Czechia. While the environmental and health-related benefits of plant-based diets are widely discussed in the media, people who follow these diets may lack professional support in terms of nutritional advice and even access to healthcare. The present study aims to map the nutritional practices and experiences with the healthcare system of people in Cz…

Topics: Public health, Environment, Lifestyle

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

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The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods: The Pro- and Antibiotic Implications of Cultivated Meat and Aquaponic Farming

The collective gut: rational nutrition and the expert visions for the socialist nutritional modernity

Caring for more-than-human metabolic health: Self-tracking technologies as tools of calculation and communication in obesity and type 1 diabetes care

“This doctor knows shit about you, but the first thing he says is, ‘you need to lose some weight’”: Anti-fat bias and the contradictory effects of fat medicalization in Czech healthcare

Nutritional Practices and Experiences of People on Vegan Diet with Healthcare System: A Qualitative Study

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