Publications
Forthcoming, 2010: “Using models to keep us healthy: Productive Journeys of Facts across Public Health Networks” Forthcoming in M. Morgan and P. Howlett (eds.): How Well Do ‘Facts’ Travel? Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
Forthcoming, 2010: “Explanatory and predictive functions of simulation modelling: Case: Haemophilus Influenzae type b dynamic transmission models” Forthcoming in G. Gramelsberger (ed.): From Science to Computational Sciences. Studies in the History of Computing and Its Influence on Today’s Sciences. Diaphenes: Zuerich.
2009: “The lives of facts in mathematical models: a story of population-level disease transmission of Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria”. BioSocieties Vol. 4 (2/3). (Download BioSocieties article)
2007: “Struggle between specificity and generality: How do infectious disease models become a simulation platform?” In Küppers, Günther, Lenhard, Johannes and Shinn, Terry: Simulation: Pragmatic Constructions of Reality. Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook vol 25 pp. 125-138. Springer.
2006: “Interdisciplinarity ‘In the Making’: Modelling Infectious Diseases”. Perspectives on Science: Historical, Philosophical, Sociological 13:4. Pp. 531-553. MIT Press.
2006: Questions to Artificial Nature: a Philosophical Study of Interdisciplinary Models and their Functions in Scientific Practice. Philosophical Studies from the University of Helsinki, no 14. Dark oy: Helsinki. (Thesis publication)
2006: with Knuuttila, Tarja, & Martina Merz: “Productive and Contested: Computer Models and Simulations in Scientific Practice”. Science Studies: An International Journal for Science and Technology Studies. 19:1. (Guest editor for a special issue on Models and simulations in scientific practice)
2006: Tarttuvien tautien leviämisestä kasvien kylmänkestävyyteen: monitieteinen mallintaminen biometrian tutkimuskäytäntönä [Multidisciplinary modelling as a research practice in biometry]. In Miettinen, Reijo; Tuunainen, Juha; Knuuttila, Tarja & Erika Mattila: Tieteestä tuotteeksi: yliopistotutkimus muutosten ristipaineessa. [From science to product: university research in the conflict of pressures] Helsinki: The Helsinki University Press.
2006: Miettinen, Reijo; Tuunainen, Juha; Knuuttila, Tarja & Erika Mattila: Tieteestä tuotteeksi: yliopistotutkimus muutosten ristipaineissa. [From science to product: university research in the conflict of pressures] Helsinki: The Helsinki University Press.
Working papers
2009: “Modelled encounters with public health risks: How do we predict the unpredictable?” Published as a refereed Discussion Paper (no 56) at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, LSE.
2009: “Ignorance and uncertainty in the life-cycles of evidence: the case of pandemic influenzae preparedness planning” Published as a refereed Discussion Paper (no 60) at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, LSE.
2009: “Acting with ‘facts’ in order to re-model vaccination policies: the case of MMR-vaccine in the UK 1988”. Working Paper 37/09, Nature of Evidence: How Well Do ‘Facts’ Travel? Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
2008, What happens to ‘facts’ after their construction? Working Paper 30/08, Nature of Evidence: How Well Do ‘Facts’ Travel? Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
2008, The Lives of ‘facts’: Understanding disease transmission through the case of Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria. Working Paper 26/08, Nature of Evidence: How Well Do ‘Facts’ Travel? Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.