A research agenda for biomedicine and society / edited by Alex Faulkner, (Emeritus Professor of Sociology, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faulkner, Alex, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar research agendas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biomedical engineering.

Medicine--Research.

Medicine.

Biotechnology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2026]

Summary:

"Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This forward-thinking Research Agenda explores the increasingly prevalent role that biomedical technologies are playing in healthcare and everyday life. Leading global experts from across sociology, anthropology, political science, science and technology studies, socio-linguistics and law investigate how society and biomedical technologies interact and how scientific innovations can be shaped for public benefit. Bringing together theory, methodological innovation, and empirical observations from many parts of the world, contributors provide a roadmap for future scholarship. Chapters examine contemporary developments in healthcare and how they challenge embedded practices and organisational forms, taking into consideration theoretical perspectives such as inequalities, feminist values, open innovation, healthcare readiness and bio-citizenship. The Research Agenda also tackles societal and ethical aspects of biomedical innovations including: new forms of patient groups; widening pharmaceutical industry participation; therapeutic safety regulation; vaccine side-effect data; digital mental health; health climate consequences; expansion of genomic testing; cancer cell therapy; psychedelics; and antimicrobial resistance. Students and scholars alike will benefit from this essential guide to future research in the multiple disciplines of biomedical social science and healthcare policy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction: Navigating biomedical worlds / Alex Faulkner

1. Populations, biologies, and futures: Research on the scientific governing of life / Mianna Meskus

2. Health under climate pressure: An emerging research agenda / Isabella M. Radhuber, Amelia Fiske and Barbara Prainsack

3. Immunization and society: A social science agenda for pharmacovigilance / Maurizia Mezza and Stuart Blume

4. Rethinking pharmaceutical innovation / Andrew Bartlett and Paul Martin

5. Towards digital mental health? Entwining expectations, novelty, and value / Martyn Pickersgill and Jorge Crespo Suarez

6. Following technologies, understanding governance: A bio-moralities approach to emerging reproductive genetic technologies / Ingrid Metzler and Erik Aarden

7. Singularization/mutualization: The emergence of a new form of patient activism around biomedical entities / Madeleine Akrich, Pascale Bourret, Alberto Cambrosio, and Vololona Rabeharisoa

8. International science collaboration under regulatory capitalism: The corruption of biomedical regulation / Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner

9. An agenda for research on the biopolitics of testing in healthcare / Alan Petersen and Kiran Pienaar

10. Assembling car-t cancer therapies for the clinic: Craftwork, socio-technical practices, and the challenges of a 'process' technology / James Mittra

11. Understandings of commercial and open-source 3d bioprinting: The politics of metaphors and metonymies / Edison Bicudo

12. Medical travel for amr treatment / Trang Do and Andrea Whittaker

13. A psychedelic research agenda? The quest for therapeutic and legal legitimacy / Muireann Quigley and Matt Hayler.

Notes:

Includes biographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035325511 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

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