Promissory and protective imaginaries of regenerative medicine: Expectations work and scenario maintenance of disease research charities in the United Kingdom
| Autor: | Alex Faulkner, Sandhya Duggal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Communication 05 social sciences Environmental ethics Disease Technoscience Regenerative Medicine 050905 science studies Regenerative medicine United Kingdom 03 medical and health sciences Scholarship Kingdom 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Work (electrical) Charities Political science Developmental and Educational Psychology 0509 other social sciences 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Public Understanding of Science. 29:392-407 |
| ISSN: | 1361-6609 0963-6625 |
| Popis: | This article draws upon recent scholarship on technoscientific imaginaries and the sociology of technology expectations to reveal the mediating roles played by a number of disease-focused research charities in the United Kingdom. We examine the expectations they deal with about regenerative medicine research, and how they develop strategies to support and ‘protect’ potential medical scenarios for new therapies for dread diseases. In so doing, we develop and detail a concept of scenario maintenance to denote the strategic discursive and practical work of preserving stakeholders’ faith in specific disease research pathways in the face of obstacles. Semi-structured in-depth interviews (N = 10) of research managers at nine research charities were qualitatively analysed, alongside a variety of charities’ documentary data. Our analysis yielded three themes: managing and moderating media expectations; specifying expectations about disease-specific appropriateness of regenerative medicine; and maintaining scenarios of possible pathways for future success taking challenges into account. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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