Author Archives: Larry

We are excited to kick off this year’s SASE conference in two weeks virtually, before we meet in Rio later in the month in July! MC 6: A Future for Health is hosting two virtual sessions, a paper panel and an author-meets-critics session on July 11 (Tuesday). Please register via the SASE Program on OxfordContinue reading “Virtual Sessions on July 11 (Tues)”

Please note that the deadline for submitting abstracts for our meeting at SASE in Rio in July 2023 is coming up on Feb 1. The theme of the mini-conference this year is “A Future for Health”. Read the call for papers here:

A new article from the Covid-19 and Trust in Science Project by Larry Au, Cristian Capotescu, Gil Eyal, and Gabrielle Finestone on “Long Covid and medical gaslighting” published in SSM – Qualitative Research in Health. Parts of this paper was presented at our SASE 2022 meeting in Amsterdam. While we know a lot more aboutContinue reading “New article: “Long Covid and medical gaslighting””

Please see below for an announcement about a relevant session at the ISA XX World Congress in July 2023 for RC02 Economy & Society from Alya Guseva: The 20th International Sociological Association World Congress will be a hybrid event held in Melbourne, Australia from June 25 – July 1, 2023. This is the ISA’s largestContinue reading “CfP: Contested Markets of Biomedicine”

On behalf of the MedHealth organizers (Wan-Zi, Kathryn, Étienne, and Larry), we would like to thank all our presenters and attendees for helping make the 2022 Mini-Conference at Amsterdam a success. We would also like to extend our gratitude for the SASE leadership and the UvA organizers for helping make the in-person gathering possible. PleaseContinue reading “A note of thanks: SASE 2022”

Carine Baxerres, a former participant of the mini-conference, has recently co-edited a new book, Understanding Drugs Markets: An Analysis of Medicines, Regulations and Pharmaceutical Systems in the Global South, with Maurice Cassier. The book is open access, and can be viewed here. The abstract of the volume from the publisher is as follows: Drawing onContinue reading “New book: “Understanding Drugs Markets”, edited by Carrine Baxerres and Maurice Cassier”

Past mini-conference participant Larry Au has published a co-authored article, with Gil Eyal, on how lay expertise was accumulated by Covid-19 patients in an online community during the initial months of the pandemic. Here’s the abstract: During the initial months of the Covid-19 pandemic, credentialed experts—scientists, doctors, public health experts, and policymakers—as well as membersContinue reading “New Article: “Whose Advice is Credible? Claiming Lay Expertise in a Covid-19 Online Community””

Past mini-conference participant Boris Hauray and colleagues are publishing a new edited volume, Conflict of Interest and Medicine: Knowledge, Practices, and Mobilizations, coming out in September 2021. The volume includes a chapter from Hauray on “A Genealogy of Conflict of Interest”, and another chapter from mini-conference organizer Étienne Nouguez on “In Whose Best Interest? FramingContinue reading “New volume: “Conflict of Interest and Medicine: Knowledge, Practices, and Mobilizations” edited by Boris Hauray, Henri Boullier, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Hélène Michel”

Former mini-conference participant Susanne Brucksch, principal researcher at the German Institute for Japanese Studies, has recently published an edited volume Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts: Case Studies from Japan with co-editor Kaori Sasaki through Palgrave MacMillan’s Health, Technology, and Society book series. The volume includes 12 chapters from 14 different contributors, touching on topicsContinue reading “New volume: “Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts” edited by Susanne Brucksch and Kaori Sasaki”

MedHealth Mini-Conference organizer Kathryn Ibata-Arens has published a new book, titled Pandemic Medicine: Why the Global Innovation System is Broken, and How We Can Fix It. The book examines patenting in China, India, Japan, and elsewhere to suggest new approaches to innovation that would benefit global human health. A description of the book from LynneContinue reading “New book: “Pandemic Medicine: Why the Global Innovation System Is Broken, and How We Can Fix It” by Kathryn Ibata-Arens”