Stemerding, D. (Dirk)
Research profile
Background
Dirk Stemerding was trained in biology and is now working as assistant professor in the field of Science and Technology Studies.
Research
General theme of his research is the study of societal embedding of technology as a process in which actors have to articulate the potentialities of a new technology, the demand for the technology, the network of production and maintenance, and issues of political and cultural acceptability. In the past ten years he has worked on a range of projects studying (1) the introduction of new forms of genetic (DNA-)diagnosis in clinical genetics as well as other clinical practices, and (2) issues of government regulation in the field of the new genetics. As principal investigator of the recently established Dutch Centre for Society and Genetics Dirk Stemerding is currently planning work which aims at a prospective analysis and interactive scenario study focussing on the dynamics and implications of the shift from established practices of clinical genetics to emerging practices of community genetics.
Scientific publications (selection)
D., Stemerding, and A.P. Nelis. forthcomming. Choices and choosing in cancer genetics. In Inside the Politics of Technology: Agency and normativity in the co-production of technology and society, edited by H. Harbers.available online
Rijswoud, E, Stemerding van, D., and T.E. Swierstra. 2008. Genetica, Genomics en gezondheidszorg. Een toekomstverkenning. Nijmegen: Centre for Society and Genomics 
Stemerding, D., and T.E. Swierstra. 2006. How Might Scenario Studies Help Us to Think about the Normative Implications of Genomics and Predictive Medicine? In Questions Éthiques En Médecine Prédictive, edited by A. de Bouvet, P. Boitte and G. Aiguier. Paris: John Libbey Eurotext.available online
D., Stemerding, and A.P. Nelis. 2004. New practices of screening in the field of cancer genetics: a co-evolutionary perspective. In Reconfigurating Nature. Issues and Debates in the New Genetics, edited by P. Glasner. Aldershot: Ashgate. 203-222available online
Stemerding, D., and Jelsma, J. 2003. Dutch roads to a socially acceptable gene technology. International Journal of Biotechnology 5 (1):47-57.available online
Stemerding, D. and Berkel, D. van. 2001. Maternal serumscreening, political descision-making and social learning. Health Policy 56:111-125.available online
