Secret History: Return of the Black Death Channel 4, 7-8pm In 1348 the Black Death swept through London, killing people within days of the appearance of their first symptoms. Exactly how many died, and why, has long been a mystery. This Secret History documentary follows experts as they pick through the evidence and reveal why the plague killed on such a scale. And they ask, what might be coming next?

Medscape

Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace

The politics of life itself Biomedicine, power, and subjectivity in the twenty-first century

This book opens a fresh chapter in the debate on local enterprise clusters and their strategies for upgrading in the global economy. The authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Latin America and Asia and provide new perspectives and insights for researchers and policymakers alike.

Governance in global value chains

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Citizen Science: A Study of People, Expertise and Sustainable Development

Based on research conducted in Spain, this chapter follows the narratives of 21 women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) with prenatal genetic diagnosis or screening (PGD/PGS). The analysis shows that there exist relevant differences between the experiences associated with these techniques and their related medicalization process. While the trajectory of women undergoing PGD for chromosome translocations or miscarriages resembles the PGS trajectory, women undergoing PGD in order to have offspring free of a specific genetic condition follow a different trajectory. While selection is always at work, the experience of it may vary significantly.

Vincenzo Pavone

Papers

Selecting What? Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis and Screening Trajectories in Spain