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The development of new health technologies has long been a focus of my research since completing my doctorate at York almost 30 years ago. As a sociologist, I have always been interested in the social, cultural, and economic factors that shape health innovation, especially in respect to new developments in the biosciences (my earliest work was on the radical changes brought about by molecular biology in the mid-1980s). My work has shown how new health technologies and the techniques, models, and assumptions on which they are based are tied into other technologies, practices, and social relations and how their adoption depends on the way these processes work together. This is true whether they appear in the most mundane (such as the stethoscope) or the most advanced (say the magnetic resonance imaging scanner or human embryonic stem cells [hESCs]) of forms. This has important implications for the perceived utility and so translation of innovation into practice.'' ''Over the past 10 years, I have directed two major research programs exploring these issues, the Innovative Health Technologies program and the Stem Cell Initiative, funded by the two research councils, the Economic and So

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Author

Majlinda Lako; Alan O. Trounson; Susan Daher

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)