BiosocietiesPub Date : 2022-03-11DOI: 10.1057/s41292-022-00273-9
Poyao Huang
{"title":"Sexual health as surplus: the marketization of PrEP in Taiwan","authors":"Poyao Huang","doi":"10.1057/s41292-022-00273-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-022-00273-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"18 1","pages":"410-428"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48515973","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 : 2022-03-08DOI: 10.1057/s41292-022-00271-x
A. Filipe
{"title":"The other face of medical globalization? Pharmaceutical data, prescribing trends, and the social localization of psychostimulants","authors":"A. Filipe","doi":"10.1057/s41292-022-00271-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-022-00271-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42194161","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 : 2022-03-08DOI: 10.1057/s41292-022-00274-8
Myriam Durocher
{"title":"‘Healthy’ for whom? ‘Healthy’ food’s effectivities, avocados, and the production of differentiated bodies","authors":"Myriam Durocher","doi":"10.1057/s41292-022-00274-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-022-00274-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"18 1","pages":"389-409"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41759902","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 : 2022-03-08DOI: 10.1057/s41292-022-00272-w
M. Smolka
{"title":"Making epistemic goods compatible: knowledge-making practices in a lifestyle intervention RCT on mindfulness and compassion meditation","authors":"M. Smolka","doi":"10.1057/s41292-022-00272-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-022-00272-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"18 1","pages":"359-388"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46495659","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 : 2022-01-25DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00267-z
Anja M B Jensen
{"title":"Making it happen: data practices and the power of diplomacy among Danish organ transplant coordinators","authors":"Anja M B Jensen","doi":"10.1057/s41292-021-00267-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00267-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42629327","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 : 2022-01-25DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00268-y
B. Kvernflaten, P. Fedorcsak, K. Solbrække
{"title":"It’s all about kids, kids, kids! Negotiating reproductive citizenship and patient-centred care in ‘factory IVF’","authors":"B. Kvernflaten, P. Fedorcsak, K. Solbrække","doi":"10.1057/s41292-021-00268-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00268-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43869644","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 : 2022-01-01Epub Date: 2021-05-13DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00232-w
Elisa Lievevrouw, Luca Marelli, Ine Van Hoyweghen
{"title":"The FDA's standard-making process for medical digital health technologies: co-producing technological and organizational innovation.","authors":"Elisa Lievevrouw, Luca Marelli, Ine Van Hoyweghen","doi":"10.1057/s41292-021-00232-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00232-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As digital health technologies (DHT) have been embraced as a 'panacea' for health care systems, they have evolved from a buzzword into a high priority objective for health policy across the globe. In the realm of quality and safety standards for medical devices, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been a frontrunner in adapting its regulatory framework to DHT. However, despite the utmost relevance of quality and safety standards and their role for sustaining the innovation pathway of DHT, their actual making has not yet been subjected to in-depth social-science scrutiny. Drawing on the conceptual repertoires of Science and Technology Studies (STS), this article investigates how digital health evolved from a buzzword into an 'object of government', or gained material meaning and transformed into a regulatable object, by charting the standard-making process of FDA's medical digital health policy between 2008 and 2018. From this, we reflect on the mutually sustaining dynamics between technological and organizational innovation, as the FDA's attempts to standardize medical DHT not only shaped the lifestyle/medical boundary for DHT. It also led to significant reconfigurations within the FDA itself, while fostering a broader shift toward the uptake of alternative forms of evidence in regulatory science.</p>","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"17 3","pages":"549-576"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8116827/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38993119","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 : 2022-01-01Epub Date: 2021-03-05DOI: 10.1057/s41292-020-00223-3
Robert D Smith
{"title":"Emerging infrastructures: the politics of radium and the validation of radiotherapy in India's first tertiary cancer hospital.","authors":"Robert D Smith","doi":"10.1057/s41292-020-00223-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-020-00223-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article traces the history of India's first tertiary cancer hospital, Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH). TMH was originally conceived in 1932 as a philanthropic project by the Tatas, an elite Parsi business family in Bombay. The founding of TMH represented a form of philanthro-capitalism which both enabled the Tatas to foster a communal acceptance for big businesses in Bombay and provide the Tatas with the opportunity to place stakes in the emerging nuclear research economy seen as essential to the scientific nationalist sentiment of the post-colonial state. In doing this, the everyday activities of TMH placed a heavy emphasis on nuclear research. In a time when radium for the treatment of cancer was still seen as 'quackery' in much of the world, the philanthro-capitalist investment and the interest in nuclear research by the post-colonial state provided an environment where radium medicine was able to be validated. The validation of radiotherapy at TMH influenced how other cancer hospitals in India developed and also provided significant resources for cancer research in early-mid twentieth century India. Ultimately, this article identifies ways in which cancer comes to be seen as relevant in the global south and raises questions on the relationship between local and global actors in setting health priorities.</p>","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":"17 3","pages":"415-441"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7933602/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25451065","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 : 2022-01-01Epub Date: 2021-07-01DOI: 10.1057/s41292-021-00238-4
Scott Berry, John Scott, Matthew Ball, Victor Minichiello
{"title":"Deploying nationalist discourses to reduce sex-, gender- and HIV-related stigma in Thailand.","authors":"Scott Berry, John Scott, Matthew Ball, Victor Minichiello","doi":"10.1057/s41292-021-00238-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-021-00238-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is little research on how nationalism is adopted and deployed to foster but also to challenge sex-, gender- and HIV-related stigma in Thailand and other nation states across Southeast Asia. The available literature highlights how self-help groups for Thai people with HIV function as communities of practice, as sites of learning, and for gaining and preserving knowledge (Tanabe 2008, Liamputtong 2009, 2014). This article contributes to the literature by demonstrating how collectives of same-sex-attracted men and male-to-female transgender people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Thailand learn and teach each other how to alleviate social and personal barriers that impede access to health care. The study adopted qualitative research methods and interviewed 22 participants in five cities in Thailand. This article highlights how collective action, which adopts and reinterprets the symbols and metaphors of Thai nationalism, acts as a 'deviance disavowal' strategy (Davis 1961). By deploying Thai nationalism, same-sex attracted men and transgender PLHIV reposition 'spoiled identities' and break through the stigma they report after HIV diagnosis. Describing mechanisms of 'deviance disavowal' in Thailand may provide an opportunity to deploy strategies to manage stigma that interferes with access to health care in Thailand, and in other nation states, and may be applicable to other stigmatised groups and illnesses.</p>","PeriodicalId":46976,"journal":{"name":"Biosocieties","volume":" ","pages":"676-694"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8246123/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39153359","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}