Mike Fortun

Cite as:

Adams, James. 2018. “Mike Fortun.” In UCI Anthro Faculty, edited by James Adams and Maggie Woodruff.  In UCI Anthro STS, edited by James Adams and Maggie Woodruff. In STS Across Borders Digital Exhibit, edited by Aalok Khandekar and Kim Fortun. Society for Social Studies of Science. August. http://stsinfrastructures.org/content/mike-fortun/essay.

Essay Metanarrative

This PECE essay helps to answer the STS Across Borders analytic question: “What people, projects, and products exemplify how this STS formation has developed over time?”

This essay is part of a broader exhibit on UCI Anthro STS.

STS Across Borders In Brief

STS Across Borders is a special exhibit organized by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) to showcase how the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has developed in different times, places...Read more

Who Is Mike Fortun?

About Mike Fortun

Mike Fortun, associate professor of Anthropology at UCI, studies the contemporary sciences and scientists of genomics and, most recently, air pollution science. He’s interested in how air pollution affects people’s health and bodies, and how scientists, engineers, practitioners and community people...Read more

Personal Website

STS Across Borders Interview

Engagements

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Notable Work

For an ethics of promising, or: a few kind words about James Watson

ABSTRACT: This essay questions some of the limits that both science studies and bioethics have assumed in their engagements with technoscience, and genomics in particular. It argues that these disciplines have privileged an “ethics of suspicion” regarding technoscience, and argues that this is...Read more

Asthma, Culture, and Cultural Analysis: Continuing Challenges

Abstract: Recent research indicates that asthma is more complicated than already
recognized, requiring a multilateral approach of study in order to better understand its many facets. Apart from being a health problem, asthma is seen as a knowledge problem, and as we argue here, a cultural...Read more

Scientific Imaginaries and Ethical Plateaus in Contemporary U.S. Toxicology

Abstract: This article contributes to a growing literature in the anthropology of science, focusing on contemporary U.S. toxicology and the development of “toxicogenomics.” Toxicogenomics research aims to understand impacts of environmental stressors at the genetic level and to create a “systems...Read more