Reinventing <em>Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong</em>

Socialising Animal Disease Risk: inventing Traceback and reinventing animals

Through a discussion of how the inventive practices of farm animal genomics interact with animal disease and food risk, this paper aims to expand our notion of what constitute the social dimensions of animal genomics, and why attention to animals and the contemporary issues surrounding them can offer us insights into genomics in general. Through a case study of the circumstances surrounding the...

REINVENTING THE WHEEL: Sometimes It’s the Right Thing

This paper provides a detailed description of how Dallas Baptist University has used the impetus generated from implementing a new integrated campus administrative computer system to document, analyze, and recommend significant organizational changes. The changes were undertaken to improve overall campus efficiency and quality of service. The basis of the paper is the methods by which DBU reeng...

Inventing and Re-Inventing the Juvenile Delinquent in British History

This article explores the development of historical writing on British youth delinquency over the last two decades, with some reference to broader European and North American influences. The article outlines the early analyses of historical juvenile crime, particularly in relation to the influence of ‘history from below’ approaches, and the history of childhood. It then moves on to consider the...

Inventing science

When I was young, we seemed to have plenty of free time available for activities that the more serious generation of today would regard as puerile, if not infantile. Thus I spent endless hours writing scripts for imaginary series such as the ‘Lives of Great Composers’ or ‘Great Moments in Science’. I remember a scene written for one of the former which depicted Berlioz in a morgue, fondling the...

Reinventing Copyright and Patent