Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite submissions for our panel “Pharmaceutical and
diagnostic futures: innovation, governance and practice” at this year's
EASST/4S conference in Prague, August 2020.
The development, marketing and use of new pharmaceutical and diagnostic
products is playing an increasing role in shaping healthcare across the
globe. Major changes are underway that may represent a fundamental
transition in the sector, driven by the search for new sources of value,
emerging technologies and systemic shifts in healthcare provision. Novel
targeted and biological products are increasingly tied to new diagnostic
tests facilitating the development of personalised medicine. A wave of
ultra-expensive speciality and orphan medicines are posing major challenges
for both access and existing regulatory frameworks and reconfiguring
relations between patients and industry. The dynamics of
pharmaceuticalisation and diagnostic innovation are extending the reach of
Western medicine and international bioscience companies into new markets
and the Global South, raising important social and ethical questions. This
Open Panel invites papers related to pharmaceutical and diagnostic studies.
We welcome papers on: the political economy of the global bio/pharma and
diagnostics industry, new and alternative forms of knowledge production,
the development of novel biological and speciality products, the changing
role of patients in innovation and regulation, the challenge to existing
forms of governance and Health Technology Assessment, medicines for
neglected and rare conditions, and situating pharmaceutical and diagnostic
innovation within broader health system transitions. In particular, we are
keen to encourage submissions from critical, feminist, post-colonial and
Global South perspectives. The Panel aims to help build a global network of
STS scholars working in this area and develop collaborative research on the
major changes underway in this key sector.
Session organisers:
Paul Martin, University of Sheffield
Stuart Hogarth, University of Cambridge
Fred Steward, Policy Studies Institute
Contact: Paul Martin (paul.martin@sheffield.ac.uk)
The submission portal is open until 29th February 2020 and accessible via
the conference website: https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/
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