Movement of knowledge : : medical humanities perspectives on medicine, science, and experience / / Rachel Irwin, Kristofer Hansson (editors).

• TeilnehmendeR: Hansson, Kristofer,; Irwin, Rachel,
• Place / Publishing House: Gothenburg : : Kriterium,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)

Medical knowledge is always in motion. It moves from the lab to the office, from a press release to a patient, from an academic journal to a civil servant's desk and then on to a policymaker. Knowledge is deconstructed, reconstructed, and transformed as it moves. The dynamic, ever-evolving natu...

Table of Contents

• Movement of knowledge: Introducing medical humanities perspectives on medicine, science, and experience Kristofer Hansson & Rachel Irwin
• Prenatal diagnosis: The co-production of knowledge and values in medical research and public debate Anna Tunlid
• The objects of global health policy: Turning knowledge into evidence at the World Health Organization Rachel Irwin
• Sharing knowledge: Neuroscience and the circulation of medical knowledge Åsa Alftberg
• Press releases as medical knowledge: Making news and identification in medical research communication Karolina Lindh
• The ethical tool of informed consent: How mutual trust is co-produced through entanglements and disentanglements of the body Markus Idvall
• The co-creation of situated knowledge: Facilitating the implementation of care models in hospital-based home care Kristofer Hansson et al.
• A number in circulation: HbA1c as standardized knowledge in diabetes care Kristofer Hansson
• Knowledge worlds apart: Aesthetic experience as an epistemological boundary object Max Liljefors
• Medicines in the grey market: A sociocultural analysis of individual agency Rui Liu & Susanne Lundin.