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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 Elize Massard da Fonseca and colleagues have published a new edited volume, titled Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19. The book evaluates health policymaking during the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe . A description of the book from the University of Michigan Press can be found here: COVID-19 isContinue reading “New volume: “Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19,” edited by Scott Greer, Elizabeth King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, André Peralta-Santos”

Past mini-conference participant Elize Massard da Fonseca and colleagues are publishing an article highlighting key regulatory approaches that determine vaccine rollouts and pandemic containment, forthcoming in Regulation & Governance. Here’s the abstract: Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 continue to be developed at an astonishingly quick speed and the early ones, like Pfizer and Moderna, have been shownContinue reading “New Article: “Perspectives in the study of the political economy of COVID-19 vaccine regulation””

Past mini-conference participant Elize Massard da Fonseca and and colleagues published an article examining how political conflicts shaped COVID-19 vaccination in Brazil in Social Science & Medicine, July 2021. Here’s the abstract: As the world struggles to meet the challenges of vaccination against COVID-19, more attention needs to be paid to issues faced by countriesContinue reading “New Article: “The politics of COVID-19 vaccination in middle-income countries: Lessons from Brazil””

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”