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  • Sci Category: SSCI

BioSocieties

Journal ISSN: 1745-8552,1745-8560

JCR: Q4

Impact Factor: Journal Impact Factor 1.778 (2025) 5-year Journal Impact Factor 1.3 (2023)

Articles

Guardians of ableist family formation: the legitimation work of Danish abortion committees in cases of termination for fetal anomaly

Laura Louise Heinsen
Published: 16 March 2024
Volume 20, pages 25–48, (2025)

What is the cure for absolute infertility? Biomedicalisation and routinisation of surrogacy and uterus transplantation in Nordic medical journals

Lise Eriksson
Published: 09 July 2024
Volume 20, pages 171–193, (2025)

The repro-paradox of sustainable reproduction—debating demographic anxieties in the Danish media (2010–2022)

Anna Sofie Bach & Michala Hvidt Breengaard
Published: 22 June 2024
Volume 20, pages 149–170, (2025)

Styles of thought in healthcare governance: A situational analysis of English PrEP discourse 2016–2020

Adam Christianson
Published: 13 April 2025  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-023-00998-4.

“Is your brain in danger of overheating?”: neurobiologizing the labouring subject in cognitive capitalism

Venla Okkonen & Maija Korhonen
Published: 29 April 2025

Endurance as a necessary path to reproduction? Repeating egg retrieval and painful encounters in Japanese mild approaches to in vitro fertilisation

Pei-Chieh Hsu
Published: 21 May 2025   https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211025453.

Good donors, bad donors and oddities in the family tree: genomics, donation and reproductive citizenship in Finnish egg donor accounts

Ronja Tammi & Riikka Homanen
Published: 21 December 2024
Volume 20, pages 324–345, (2025)

Paradoxical bodies: negotiating biomedical fix, responsibility, and care in a weight-loss surgery clinic

Hilla Nehushtan & Yehuda C. Goodman
Published: 24 September 2024
Volume 20, pages 248–270, (2025)

‘Our biology is listening’: biomarkers as molecular vestiges of early life and the production of positive childhood experiences in behavioral epigenetics

Robbin Jeffries Hein, Martine Lappé & Fionna Francis Fahey
Published: 31 August 2024
Volume 20, pages 223–247, (2025)

When sociality fails to produce solidarity: environmental NGOs and the politics of public engagement in contemporary China

Loretta Ieng Tak Lou & Anna Lisa Lora-Wainwright
Published: 05 June 2025

Chronic pain across clinical settings: the changing understanding of pain and its treatment in endometriosis

Maria Temmes, Elina Helosvuori & Venla Oikkonen
Published: 24 June 2025

Introduction

BioSocieties is a pioneering journal dedicated to the rigorous scholarly exploration of the social, ethical, and policy implications of developments in the life sciences and biomedicine.It breaks disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences and humanities, and between these fields and the natural sciences, to foster new ways of thinking about the relationship between life sciences and society.

Editorial Board

Senior Editor

Hannah Landecker, Department of Sociology, Institute for Social and Genetic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Catherine Waldby, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia
Ayo Wahlberg, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Editor

Filippa Lentzos, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London, UK
Carlos Novas, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Canada
Anne Pollock, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London, UK
Chloe Silverman, Department of History and Political Science, Drexel University, USA

Aims & Scope

  • Social Studies of Life Sciences

  • Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions of Biosciences

  • Ethics and Policy in Bioscience Research

  • Science and Technology Studies (STS)

  • Biosocial and Biomedical Knowledge and Practices

  • Interdisciplinary Approaches in Life Sciences

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