Reduce the risk of cot death (London: Foundation for the Study of Infant Death and U.K. Department of Health, 2000).
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Anne Grinyer and I spoke to women caring for infants between 1995 and 1998 about implementing the health information about reducing the risk of cot death. During this time I gave birth to my third child. Hence, the research and my own experiences are intimately interwoven.
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A fleeting reference to the materiality inherent to the notion of heterogeneous engineering (often associated with the Actor-Network Approach) and initially coined by John Law. See JohnL A W, “Technology and heterogeneous engineering: The case of Portuguese expansion,” in BijkerW. E.HughesT. P.PinchT. (eds.), The Social Construction of Technological Systems (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press: 1987), pp. 111–134; and JohnL A WJohnHassard (eds.) Actor Network Theory and After (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers/The Sociological Review, 1999).
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This exploration of implementing “Back to Sleep” is developed in Vicky Singleton “Made on Location: Public Health and Subjectivities,”paper presented to Centre for Science Studies workshop, Science, Technology and Medicine Studies, 15 March 2000. There are various allusions to the work of Donna Haraway scattered throughout this review, such as the metaphors of stitching, patchwork, interference. I refer the reader to her moving work, including Donna Haraway, Modest-Witness@Second-Millennium: FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience (New York and London: Routledge1997).
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Three of the articles in the collection (by Anne Balsamo, Ruth Behar, and Donna Haraway) have appeared elsewhere, but they certainly bear re-reading.
