Ayo Wahlberg

Ayo Wahlberg

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  1. Published

    Book review of Oxfeld, Ellen. 2010. Drink water, but remember the source: moral discourse in a Chinese village. Berkeley: University of California Press. 312 pp.

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2012, In: Social Anthropology. 20, 3, p. 351-352 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Grounding biological and biomedical research – Sino-European collaboration

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2010, In: BIOS News. 14, p. 3-4 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleCommunication

  3. Published

    The platforming of human embryo editing: prospecting “disease free” futures

    Wahlberg, Ayo, Dong, D., Song, P. & Zhu, J., 2022, In: New Genetics and Society. 40, 4, p. 367-383

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    The global health complex

    Wahlberg, Ayo, McGoey, L. & Reiss, J., 1 Mar 2011, In: BioSocieties. 6, 1, p. 1-9 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Measuring progress: calculating the life of nations

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2007, In: Distinktion : Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory. 14, p. 65-82 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    The Vitality of Disease

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2017, The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society. Meloni, M., Cromby, J., Fitzgerald, D. & Lloyd, S. (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 727-748 21 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Herbs, Laboratories, and Revolution: On the Making of a National Medicine in Vietnam

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2014, In: East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an international journal. 8, 1, p. 43-56 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    China as an Emerging Biotech Power

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2012, In: Third World Quarterly. 33, 4, p. 623-636 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    An Elusive Evidence Base: The Construction and Governance of Randomized Controlled Trials

    Wahlberg, Ayo & McGoey, L., 2007, In: BioSocieties. 2, 1, p. 1-10 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Introduction: Kinds of Children

    Wahlberg, Ayo & Gammeltoft, Tine, 24 Aug 2017, Selective Reproduction in the 21st Century. Wahlberg, A. & Gammeltoft, T. M. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-24 24 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    At få sit liv tilbage: Stamceller og håbet om regeneration

    Wahlberg, Ayo & Huniche, L., 1 Mar 2010, In: Jordens Folk - Etnografisk Revy. årg. 45, 1, p. 30-37 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Exposed Biologies and the Banking of Reproductive Vitality in China

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2018, In: Science, Technology and Society. 23, 2, p. 307-323

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency

    Wahlberg, Ayo, Witt, C., Kaptchuk, T. & MacPherson, H., 1 Dec 2011, Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare. MacPherson, H. & Scheid, V. (eds.). New York: Elsevier, p. 123-138 15 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    The governmentalization of living: Calculating global health

    Wahlberg, Ayo & Rose, N., 2015, In: Economy and Society. 44, 1, p. 60-90 31 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Human Activity between Nature and Society: The Negotiation of Infertility in China

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2014, Anthropology and Nature. Hastrup, K. (ed.). RoutledgeFalmer, p. 184-195 13 p. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology; No. 14).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Knowledge of living

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2014

    Research output: Other contributionNet publication - Internet publicationResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Making CAM Auditable: Technologies of Assurance in CAM Practice Today

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2015, Routledge Handbook of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Perspectives from Social Science and Law. Gale, N. & McHale, J. (eds.). Routledge, p. 129-143 15 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Book review of: The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2022, In: Isis. 113, 4, p. 875-876

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Tracking failing biologies: Book review : Local Cells, Global Science - A. Bharadwaj and P. Glasner & The Woman Who Walked into the Sea - A. Wexler

    Wahlberg, Ayo, Sep 2010, In: Science as Culture. 19, 3, p. 369-374 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  20. Published

    Anm. af : M. Ruggi: Marginal to Mainstream: Alternative Medicine in America. -  B. Szerszynski: Nature, Technology and the Sacred.

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2006, In: British Journal of Sociology. 57, 2, p. 334-335 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  21. Published

    Book Review of Thompson, C. Michele. 2015.Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History. Singapore: NUS Press, 179 pp.

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2017, In: Journal of Anthropological Research. 73, 3, p. 514-516

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewCommunication

  22. Published

    Review of "Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life", by Aihwa Ong, Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2018, In: Theory, Culture & Society.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    From global bioethics to ethical governance of biomedical research collaborations

    Wahlberg, Ayo, Rehmann-Sutter, C., Sleeboom-Faulkner, M., Lu, G., Döring, O., Cong, Y., Laska-Formejster, A., He, J., Chen, H., Gottweis, H. & Rose, N., 2013, In: Social Science & Medicine. 98, p. 293-300 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Guvernementaliseringen af livet: beregningen af den globale sundhed

    Wahlberg, Ayo & Rose, N., 2017, Sundhed og magt: Perspektiver på biopolitik og ledelsesteknologi. Karlsen, M. P. & Villadsen, K. (eds.). København: Hans Reitzels Forlag, p. 59-105

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Serious Disease as Kinds of Living

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2009, Contested Categories: Life Sciences in Society. Bauer, S. & Wahlberg, A. (eds.). Burlington: Ashgate, p. 89-112 23 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  26. Published

    Book Review of Sperling, Stefan. 2013.Reasons of Conscience: The Bioethics Debate in Germany. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 333 pp.

    Wahlberg, Ayo, Jun 2015, In: Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 29, 2, p. b7-b8 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearchpeer-review

  27. Published

    Selective Reproduction in the 21st Century

    Wahlberg, Ayo (ed.) & Gammeltoft, Tine (ed.), 24 Aug 2017, Cham: Springer. 198 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  28. Published

    Assemblage Ethnography: Configurations Across Scales, Sites, and Practices

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2022, The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology. Bruun, M. H., Wahlberg, A., Douglas-Jones, R., Hasse, C., Hoeyer, K., Kristensen, D. B. & Winthereik, B. R. (eds.). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 125-144

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  29. Published

    Assessing vitality: infertility and 'good life' in urban China

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2010, The Right to Life and the Value of Life: Orientations in Law, Politics and Ethics. Yorke, J. (ed.). Farnham: Ashgate, p. 371-398 27 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  30. Published

    Rescuing Folk Remedies: Ethnoknowledge and the Reinvention of Indigenous Herbal Medicine in Britain

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2010, Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland: Stethoscopes, Wands or Crystals?. Moore, R. & McClean, S. (eds.). Oxford: Berghahn Books, p. 121-140 19 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  31. Published

    Human activity between nature and society: The negotiation of infertility in China

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 1 Jan 2013, Anthropology and Nature. Taylor & Francis, p. 184-195 12 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  32. Published

    Introduction: Categories of Life

    Wahlberg, Ayo & Bauer, S., 2009, Contested Categories: Life Sciences in Society. Bauer, S. & Wahlberg, A. (eds.). Burlington: Ashgate, p. 1-13 13 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  33. Published

    Southern Medicine for Southern People: Vietnamese Medicine in the Making

    Wahlberg, Ayo (ed.), Monnais, L. (ed.) & Thompson, M. (ed.), Jan 2012, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 291 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  34. Published

    Global imaginations: Review of "Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics" by Jens Beckert, Cambridge, 2016, pp. 373

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 1 Nov 2018, In: Distinktion. 19, 3, p. 341-343 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearchpeer-review

  35. Published

    Above and beyond superstition: western herbal medicine and the decriminalising of placebo

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2008, In: History of the Human Sciences. 21, 1, p. 77-101 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  36. Published

    Book Review: Tangled Diagnoses. Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk. Löwy, Ilana, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018, 319 pp.

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2019, In: Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 33, 3

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewCommunication

  37. Published

    Pathways to plausibility: when herbs become pills

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2008, In: BioSocieties. 3, 1, p. 37-56 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  38. Published

    A quackery with a difference: new medical pluralism and the problem of 'dangerous practitioners' in the United Kingdom

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2007, In: Social Science & Medicine. 65, 11, p. 2307-2316 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  39. Published

    Blood work: life and laboratories in Penang: By Janet Carsten. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. 237 pp. ISBN: 9781478004813

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2023, In: Asian Anthropology. 22, 1, p. 76-77

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  40. Published

    Banking on the Future: Everything you always wanted to know about sperm donation in China

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 4 Apr 2018, In: World Policy Journal. 35, 1, p. 91-98 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  41. Published

    Good Quality: the Routinization of Sperm Banking in China

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 3 Apr 2018, University of California Press. 229 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  42. Published

    The Substance of Sperm

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2023, A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology. Van Hollen, C. C. & Appleton, N. (eds.). London: Wiley, p. 317-331

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  43. Published

    Bodies and populations: life optimization in Vietnam

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2009, In: New Genetics and Society. 28, 3, p. 241-251 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  44. Published

    Assessing vitality: Infertility and 'good life' in Urban China

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 1 Dec 2010, The Right to Life and the Value of Life: Orientations in Law, Politics and Ethics. Ashgate Publishing Ltd, p. 371-397 27 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  45. Published
  46. Published

    Tourisme de cellules souches, désespoir et pouvoir des nouvelles thérapies

    Wahlberg, Ayo & Streitfellner, T., 1 Oct 2010, Les Technologies de l'Espoir: La Fabrique d'une Histoire à Accomplir. Leibing, A. & Tournay, V. (eds.). Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, p. 25-46 22 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  47. Published

    Book review of Whittaker, Andrea (ed.) 2010. Abortion in Asia: local dilemmas, global politics. New York: Berghahn Books. 248 pp

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 1 Jul 2011, In: Social Anthropology. 19, 3, p. 360-361 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearchpeer-review

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  50. Published

    Bruno Latour: Forbindelser

    Wahlberg, Ayo, 2020, Klassiske og moderne antropologiske tænkere. Hastrup, K. (ed.). København: Hans Reitzels Forlag, p. 595-612

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

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