ABSTRACT

Most of the people doing research on biomedicine and technoscience during the past twenty-five years have also been subjects of biomedical diagnosis. Our research has shaped how we live with our own diagnostic images and it has shaped how we intervene in their interpretations; those experiences and actions have shaped our research and writing. We diagnose technoscience and biomedicine; in turn, we are diagnosed. We are subject and object to ourselves; we have been objects of study for our research subjects. Our subjectivity as knowers and as objects of study is paralleled by our knowledgeable inquiries into the ways of knowing in biomedicine and technoscience; we are multiply informed. We know our subject intimately; we are knowing subjects.