Since this article essay/ article falls directly within the purview of STS, it draws on and alludes to a lot of things that have contributed to formation if STS as a discipline. It is difficult to make an exhaustive list of the particular texts that Fischer draws on from because allusions are aplenty. To give an overall gist --he draws from classical anthropological texts dealing with the political system, the philosophical and literary debates, new sociology, sociology of health and medicine, cybernetic culture, ecological health based anthropologies in local specific sites to name a few.
Fischer’s article contributes directly to the literature in STS. This article offers a grounding experience for the readers who do not have a background in STS and for the ones who are from the field, it offers an insightful retrospective account and suggests scope for its futures having collated diverse learnings from the past.
