BiosocietiesPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00258-0
Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli, David A Rier
{"title":"Entrepreneurial treatment activism for undone science: mannitol and Parkinson's disease.","authors":"Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli, David A Rier","doi":"10.1057/s41292-021-00258-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00258-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper describes CliniCrowd, a patient-designed, entrepreneurial, crowd-sourced citizen-science approach to evaluating mannitol-essentially, an orphan drug-as a Parkinson's disease treatment. As such, CliniCrowd addresses 'undone science', and our paper contributes to the sociological literature thereon. Based on 38 qualitative interviews, fieldwork, and content analyses (2017-2020), we trace CliniCrowd's background and rationale. We: discuss undone science and its wider contexts; present earlier iterations of citizen-science and treatment activism; examine CliniCrowd's application of crowd-sourced citizen-science to address undone science around 'orphan drug' treatment for Parkinson's disease; explore how CliniCrowd has evolved, and re-framed its work, since its founding; ponder its future; and consider whether their approach can guide future citizen-science treatment research. Our paper contributes to the existing literature in four ways. First, we focus on medical treatment issues, an under-studied area of undone science. Second, we highlight orphan drugs as both major source of, and fruitful area for research on, undone science. Third, we describe CliniCrowd's pragmatic, entrepreneurial-rather than the more common activist-citizen-science approach to addressing undone treatment science. Finally, from our data on CliniCrowd we distil a preliminary model for future treatment activism around undone science.</p>","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"18 1","pages":"128-155"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8536910/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9157741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2022-01-29DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00269-x
Sarah Wadmann, Mette Hartlev, Klaus Hoeyer
{"title":"The life and death of confidentiality: a historical analysis of the flows of patient information.","authors":"Sarah Wadmann, Mette Hartlev, Klaus Hoeyer","doi":"10.1057/s41292-021-00269-x","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41292-021-00269-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Health data can contain sensitive information. People who consult a doctor seek help on issues that matter to them: they typically expect some form of confidentiality. However, the notion and practices of confidentiality have changed dramatically over time. In this article, we trace the history of confidentiality in the Danish healthcare system, which has one of the world's most integrated patient information infrastructures. Building on an analysis of legal and political documents dating back to the late seventeenth century, we show that confidentiality originated as a social phenomenon that helped build trust in healthcare professionals and gradually developed into an idiom of citizens rights. Lately, confidentiality has given way to more technocratic forms of data protection. As the political, legal and technological reality, which the idea of confidentiality once referred to, has radically changed, we argue that confidentiality has become what Ulrik Beck has called a 'zombie category'-a notion that lives on even if its content has passed away. If confidentiality has become a zombie concept, we suggest it is time to discuss what may take its place so that patient interests are protected in the current political economy of health data.</p>","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"18 2","pages":"282-307"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8799987/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9508091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.1057/s41292-022-00297-1
M. De Proost, G. Coene
{"title":"“It gives me time, but does it give me freedom?”: a contextual understanding of anticipatory decision-making in social egg freezing","authors":"M. De Proost, G. Coene","doi":"10.1057/s41292-022-00297-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-022-00297-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47125999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2022-12-22DOI: 10.1057/s41292-022-00293-5
A. Lentacker
{"title":"Epistemology of the side effect: anecdote and evidence in the digital age","authors":"A. Lentacker","doi":"10.1057/s41292-022-00293-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-022-00293-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41875269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1057/s41292-022-00292-6
Nedim Karakayali
{"title":"The normal is pathological: semi-conscious brains, mindless habits, and the paradoxical science of mindfulness","authors":"Nedim Karakayali","doi":"10.1057/s41292-022-00292-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-022-00292-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41755629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.1057/s41292-022-00294-4
N. Langlitz
{"title":"Psychedelic innovations and the crisis of psychopharmacology","authors":"N. Langlitz","doi":"10.1057/s41292-022-00294-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-022-00294-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46229346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2022-12-14DOI: 10.1057/s41292-022-00291-7
S. Mulinari, Anna Bredström
{"title":"“Black race”, “Schwarze Hautfarbe”, “Origine africaine”, or “Etnia nera”? The absent presence of race in European pharmaceutical regulation","authors":"S. Mulinari, Anna Bredström","doi":"10.1057/s41292-022-00291-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-022-00291-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49633741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2022-12-01Epub Date: 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00239-3
Daphne Oluwaseun Martschenko
{"title":"\"The elephant in the room\": social responsibility in the production of sociogenomics research.","authors":"Daphne Oluwaseun Martschenko","doi":"10.1057/s41292-021-00239-3","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41292-021-00239-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sociogenomics examines the extent to which genetic differences between individuals relate to differences in social and economic behaviors and outcomes. The field evokes mixed reactions. For some, sociogenomics runs the risk of normalizing eugenic attitudes and legitimizing social inequalities. For others, sociogenomics brings the promise of more robust and nuanced understandings of human behavior. Regardless, a history of misuse and misapplication of genetics raises important questions about researchers' social responsibilities. This paper draws on semi-structured interviews with sociogenomics researchers who investigate intelligence and educational attainment. It does so to understand how researcher's motivations for engaging in a historically burdened field connect to their views on social responsibility and the challenges that come with it. In interviews, researchers highlighted the trade-off between engaging in socially contested research and the potential benefits their work poses to the social sciences and clinical research. They also highlighted the dilemmas of engaging with the public, including the existence of multiple publics. Finally, researchers elucidated uncertainties over what social responsibility is in practice and whether protecting against the misuse and misinterpretation of their research is wholly possible. This paper concludes by offering ways to address some of the challenges of social responsibility in the production of knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"17 4","pages":"713-731"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9754080/pdf/nihms-1775552.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10400989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.1057/s41292-022-00284-6
Sanghamitra Das
{"title":"Indentured clinical labor? An indigenist standpoint view of ‘forced surrogacy’ and reproductive governance in India","authors":"Sanghamitra Das","doi":"10.1057/s41292-022-00284-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-022-00284-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"18 1","pages":"586 - 613"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42301871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BiosocietiesPub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.1057/s41292-022-00287-3
J. Guthman, Charlotte Biltekoff
{"title":"Agri-food tech’s building block: narrating protein, agnostic of source, in the face of crisis","authors":"J. Guthman, Charlotte Biltekoff","doi":"10.1057/s41292-022-00287-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-022-00287-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"18 1","pages":"656-678"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45924777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}