The Public Shaping of Medical Research Patient Associations Health Movements and Biomedicine 1st Edition Peter Wehling

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415858232
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415858236
• Author:  Peter Wehling (Editor), Willy Viehöver (Editor), Sophia Koenen (Editor)

Patient organizations and social health movements offer one of the most important and illuminating examples of civil society engagement and participation in scientific research and research politics. Influencing the research agenda, and initiating, funding and accelerating the development of diagnostic tools, effective therapies and appropriate health-care for their area of interest, they may champion alternative, sometimes controversial, programs or critique dominant medical paradigms. Some movements and organizations advocate for medical recognition of contested illnesses, as with fibromyalgia orADHD, while some attempt to “de-medicalize” others, such as obesity or autism.

Bringing together an international selection of leading scholars and representatives from patients’ organizations, this comprehensive collection explores the interaction between civil society groups and biomedical science, technology development, and research politics. It takes stock of the key findings of the research conducted in the field over the past two decades and addresses emerging problems and future challenges concerning the interrelations between health movements and patient organisations on the one hand, and biomedical research and research policies on the other hand. Combining empirical case studies with conceptual discussion, the book discusses how public participation can contribute to, as well as restrict, the democratization of scientific knowledge production.

This volume is an important reference for academics and researchers with an interest in the sociology of health and illness, science and technology studies, the sociology of knowledge, medical ethics or healthcare management and research, as well as medical researchers and those involved with health-related civil society organizations.

Table of contents:

PART I Empirical cases and theoretical perspectives

1 A seat at the table, “a lab of our own” and working with what we know now: how the US environmental breast cancer movement shapes research

2 Initiating and funding medical research on a rare disease: the approach of the German Cystic Fibrosis Association

3 EURORDIS: empowering patients living with rare diseases to participate in biomedical knowledge production

4 The entanglement of scientific and political claims: towards a new form of patients’ activism

5 Obesity, the alternative food movement, and complete streets: new forms of “patient” activism and the evolution of health social movements

PART II Shifting contexts and new challenges

6 Autism, the Internet, and medicalization

7 A community fractured: Canada’s breast cancer movement, pharmaceutical company funding, and science-related advocacy

8 Beyond scientific controversies: scientific counterpublics, countervailing industries, and undone science

9 Interpellating patients as future users of biomedical technologies: the case of patient associations and stem cell research

10 Patient organizations as biosocial communities? Conceptual clarifications and critical remarks

PART III Democratizing biomedicine? The role of patient associations and health social movements

11 Changing contexts for science and society interaction: from deficit to dialogue, from dialogue to participation – and beyond?

12 The virtues (and some perils) of activist participation: the political and epistemic legitimacy of patient activism

13 The ethical legitimacy of patient organizations’ involvement in politics and knowledge production: epistemic justice as a conceptual basis

Conclusion: effects of and challenges to the public shaping of medical research

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