Caring for Social Complexity in Nanomedicine

Schillmeier, Michael

doi:10.2217/nnm.15.149

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“…We broadly concur with Michael Schillmeier's () extremely perceptive and apposite analysis that calls on social science scholars to explore the social cross‐scalar complexity of nanomedicine. Equally, his critique of ELSI's excessive reliance on a humanist ontology, privileging ‘human agency’ (Schillmeier : 61) at the expense of the agency of the ‘more‐than‐human’ (2015b: 56), is particularly urgent in the field of nanomedicine.…”

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confidence: 75%

Nanomedicine and personalised medicine: understanding the personalisation of health care in the molecular era

Noury

López

2016

Sociology Health & Illness

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Globally supported by public policy and investment, nanomedicine is presented as an ongoing medical revolution that will radically change the practice of health care from diagnostic to therapeutic, and everything in between. One of nanomedicine's major promises is that of personalised medicine, enabling diagnostics and therapeutics tailored to individual needs and developing a truly 'patient-friendly' medical approach. Based on qualitative interviews with nanomedicine researchers in Canada, this article explores the emerging concept of personalised medicine as it becomes entangled with nanomedical research. More precisely, drawing on insights from science studies and the sociology of expectations, it analyses researchers' perceptions of personalised medicine in the cutting edge of current nanomedicine research. Two perceptions of personalisation are identified; a molecular conception of individuality and a technical conception of personalisation. The article concludes by examining the relationship between the two conceptions and contrasts them with the normative reflex of a more expansive conception of personalised medicine.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

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Nanomedicine and personalised medicine: understanding the personalisation of health care in the molecular era

Noury

López

2016

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Kraus recently discussed the issue of quality, reliability and reproducibility in an editorial of Molecular Endocrinology, also discussing such publications for the general public [9]. In the present issue, Schillmeier discusses the complexity presented to all actors, from scientists, medical practitioners, regulatory agencies to the general public [35].…”

Section: Complexity Variability and Reproducibility In Biological Sciementioning

confidence: 96%

“…Siegwart et al reported a particularly interesting work in this respect [47]. Various different block copolymers (35) were cross-linked using 96 different multifunctional amines to form cross-linked polymer nanoparticles for RNA delivery. This gave a quite significant library of different nanoparticles, from which structure property relationships were deduced.…”

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Polymers and Nanomedicine: Considerations on Variability and Reproducibility When Combining Complex Systems

Luxenhofer¹

2015

Nanomedicine (Lond.)

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Hot topics in polymer science in the recent years and decades included macromolecular engineering enabled by controlled and living polymerization, use of polymers in biomedical applications. Control over polymerization and the structure of polymers increased tremendously. Despite the increased control over various polymerization techniques, polymers are intrinsically statistical in nature leading to a structural variability. As researchers combine polymers and biological systems, we combine two complex systems. Interestingly though, only the study of biological assays is subject to systematic scrutiny with respect to their reproducibility and variability. Here, it is argued that polymer synthesis should also be considered with systematic variability analysis, in particular in connection with downstream processes such as biological assays.

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“… 3. On hesitation as a source of public modes of caring about science, technology and medicine, see Schillmeier (2015). …”

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The cosmopolitics of situated care

Schillmeier

2017

The Sociological Review

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Everyday experiences of illness draw our attention to the importance of the cosmopolitics of care in and through which normalizing and normalized practices of care can neither be taken for granted nor be expected. Drawing on ethnographic work on issues of everyday care practices in heath care this article argues that caring relations demand an attentiveness to the emerging requirements of care in concrete situations. Shared policy rules are beneficial if they allow policy practitioners to respond adequately to the unfolding issues, requirements and obligations of care practices. The article suggests that an ethnographic sense of and for caring practices may offer important insights that contribute to health care policy making processes.

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Caring for Social Complexity in Nanomedicine

Cited by 21 publications

References 39 publications

Nanomedicine and personalised medicine: understanding the personalisation of health care in the molecular era

Nanomedicine and personalised medicine: understanding the personalisation of health care in the molecular era

Polymers and Nanomedicine: Considerations on Variability and Reproducibility When Combining Complex Systems

The cosmopolitics of situated care

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