Introduction: Queering Health and Biomedicine

Nanoinformatics for environmental health and biomedicine

Nanotechnology has become a significant enabling technology for a wide array of industries being integrated across diverse areas such as medicine, electronics, biomaterials, and energy production. For example, nano-scaled systems have been designed and utilized for safe and effective targeted delivery of therapeutic agents, demonstrating the rapid advancements of nanotechnology in medical-treat...

HINARI: Opening access in biomedicine and health

As one considers all the elements and issues of an open publishing environment, it is helpful to understand one of the programmes that exist to enable access in lowand middle-income countries. HINARI arose to meet the stated need for researchers in less resourced areas of the world to have access to up-to-date information in biomedicine, since university libraries and research institutions in l...

Biomedicine and Biotechnology: Public Health Impact

1 Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Gurgaon, India 2The Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), India 3 Immunology and InfectionDepartment, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and TropicalMedicine, UK 4Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221 005, India 5 National Brain Research Center, NH-8, Manesar, Gurgaon, H...

Bayesian networks in biomedicine and health-care

Queering Aging Futures

This paper explores the potential for cultural gerontology to extend its ideas of diversity in aging experiences by opening space to rethink conceptions of successful aging futures. We propose a ‘queering’ of aging futures that disrupts the ways that expectations of a good later life and happy aging are seen to adhere to some bodies and subjectivities over others. Drawing on feminist, queer, an...