Anne Brüninghaus

Martin Döring

Imme Petersen

Regine Kollek

This collective monograph aims at contributing to an improved understanding of the epistemic presumptions, sociocultural implications and historically backgrounds of the newly emerging and currently expanding approach of systems biology. In doing so, it offers empirically grounded, valuable and reflexive information about a paradigmatic shift in the biosciences for a wide range of scientists working in the interdisciplinary areas of systems biology, synthetic biology, molecular biology, biology, the philosophy of science, the sociology of science and scientific knowledge, science and technology studies, technology assessment and the like. The authors of this monograph share the theoretical methodological premise that science is a culturally and socially embedded practice which characterizes our culture as a scientific one and at the same time draws its innovative potential from its socio-cultural context. This dialectic relationship lies at the heart of the current development of systems biology which is conceived as a so-called successor of ‘-omics’ research and triggered by high-throughput information technologies. At the same time a need for a holistic conceptualization of complex biological processes emerges. The title Contextualizing Systems Biology suggests that this book analyzes the development and advent of systems biology from different theoretical and methodological perspectives. We investigate a variety of contexts ranging from the analysis of cognitive contexts (such as basic theoretical concepts) to regulative contexts (policies) to the concrete application of a systems biology in the socio-scientific context of a European research project. In empirically analyzing these different and interrelated layers and dimensions of systems biology, the scope of the book goes beyond present attempts to investigate the advent of new approaches in the biological sciences as it frames and assesses systems biology from an interdisciplinary and integrated perspective.

Presuppositions and Implications of a New Approach in Biology

Contextualizing Systems Biology

Nils B. Heyen

Sascha Dickel

Neue digitale Technologien erleichtern es zunehmend, persönliche gesundheitsbezogene Daten zu generieren, zu analysieren und zu kommunizieren. Immer mehr Menschen nutzen entsprechende Instrumente und Angebote, um Wissen über ihre eigene Gesundheit, ihren Körper und ihr Selbst zu produzieren – etwa im Zuge digitaler Selbstvermessung oder über Gentests im Internet. Die Produktion dieses Wissens steht in einem Spannungsfeld von Selbstbezug und Wissenschaftsbezug, welches für das sich wandelnde Verhältnis von Wissenschaft, Medizin und Gesellschaft insgesamt instruktiv ist. Der Sammelband bezeichnet diese wissensproduzierenden, auf die persönliche Gesundheit bezogenen Praktiken von Bürgern und Laien als Personal Health Science und analysiert ihre Ausprägungen, Dynamiken und Kontexte.

Persönliches Gesundheitswissen zwischen Selbstsorge und Bürgerforschung

Personal Health Science

Anne Brüninghaus

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