Women, Biomedical Research and Art

Solidarity researcher Ninette Rothmüller is currently based at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara, USA.

• Acknowledgments1 Prologue1.1 Introduction1.1.1 Research Leading to this Study1.1.2 Embedding the Research in Pedagogy1.1.3 Content of Chapters2 On the Matrix of this Study OR How to Soar2.1 On the Interest in Messiness and Inclusion2.2 Body/Körper and Leib – an Attempt to Define Relationalitythrough Translation, Time, and Meaning2.2.1 An Introduction to Spaces of Public Reflections:On Erasing and Connecting “Semi-real” Bodies2.2.2 On the Interface of Body/Körper and Leib –the Significance of Translations and Relationalitybetween Experience and Language2.3 Body/Körper and Leib - Historical Connections –Philosophical and Religious Framings2.3.1 On the Interface of Body, Leib and Körper –Phenomenology and Post- structural Thoughts2.4 Body/Körper and Leib – Theory and its Application2.4.1 On the Entwinement of Body/Körper and Leib2.5 Leib Confrontations3 The Methodological Conceptualization of the Project3.1 The Pre-study3.2 The Multi-Sited Characteristics of this Study3.2.1 Germany and the UK as Geographical, Political,Legal, Social, and Cultural Research Sites3.2.2 Sites of Technological Intersections3.2.3 Sites of Transdisciplinarity3.3 Fieldwork3.3.1 Feminist Ways of Knowing3.3.2 Locating Visuals in the Field and Social ScienceResearch3.3.3 Carrying out Conversations3.3.4 On the Shift to Talking of Conversations instead ofInterviews and on the Role of Both ConversationPartners3.3.5 Incorporating Texts in Fieldwork3.4 Analysis/Writing3.4.1 Transcription and Authorization3.4.2 On the Use of Language as an Analytical Tool3.4.3 Art as a Tool to Research – Of Women4 Fragmentations4.1 Entities in a Chapter about Fragmentation4.2 Constructing Potential Things in Time and Space4.2.1 Telling the Story – Presenting the Pictures. On Tryingto Grasp what is at Stake4.2.2 Telling the Story – Sensing Women. Contributionsto Confusion4.2.3 Presenting the Picture – Sensing the Female Body.Contribution in Search of Matter(s)4.2.4 Preparing the Stage – On Spaces of Separation andHierarchies4.2.5 Seeking Company – Speaking, Writing, Seeing4.3 Bodies at Stake – Visualized, Seduced, Taken Apart,but Alive?4.3.1 Bodies Inside out – Dwelled Space Seduced4.3.2 The Heartbeat of a Machine and I4.3.3 On the Organic Colonization of Scotland and Englandby a Pregnant Woman4.4 Final Thoughts5 Body Geographics. Territories, Trades, and Mappingsin Inequality5.1 Body Territories Under Re-construction – an Introduction5.1.1 Body Territories Under Re-construction – Voices5.1.2 Body Territories Under Re-construction –Actors and Activities5.1.3 Bodily Substance Transfer and Hierarchies in OrganTransplantations or, When Are We Dead?5.1.4 Mapping Sites in Action – On the Creation ofPowerful Stories, Marketable Events, and Images5.1.5 Art and the Skinned and Scanned Human5.2 Traffics in the Body – Historical Remarks on SubstantialTrade Relations6 Gendered Harvest6.1 Cells at Stake – Ethical and Legal Approaches6.2 Human Recycling – Terms and Conditions6.2.1 Bodies and Borders – Voices6.2.2 Body Exchange and Leib Rejection6.3 Gendered “Donations”6.3.1 Rearranging Borders – Organs and Tissue Travelfrom East to West and from Bottom to Top6.3.2 Harvesting the Body during the Gold Rush6.3.3 Gifts and Commodities – Writing Valuesonto Bodies6.3.4 Celebrating Christmas during Birth OR How to Bea “Good Citizen”7 Participatory Art and Public Engagement7.1 To Create7.1.1 To Create Here and Now, There and Then7.1.2 Space, Place, Site, Location – TheoreticalConsiderations7.2 It’s Best to Take Risks when Nothing is Safe to Start with7.2.1 Contemporary Social Landscapes of Creation ORWhose Voices Make to Not Create Not an Option7.3 Biomedical Developments as Sites of Action – Investigatingand Creating7.3.1 Focus Creative Works – Time, Space, Travels7.3.2 Stories of Matter – Sites of Action7.4 To Conclude8 Showdown8.1 Showdown I – Writing on Flesh8.2 Showdown II – my House8.3 Showdown III – the Best8.4 Showdown IV – Play it – Make it a Condition and a Task8.5 EpilogueNote on AccessibilityReferencesIndex