Stuart Blume
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 199154 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stuart Blume |
| PRENOMES | Stuart |
| SOBRENOME | Blume |
| ASSINATURA | BLUME S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7557-8830 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 198 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
What’s at stake? Covid-19 vaccination and ‘communities at risk’
Which vaccine? Between evidence-based policy and symbolic politics
Immunization and States
Globally, there has been a move away from national public sector vaccine development over the past 30 years. Immunization and States: The Politics of Making Vaccines explores vaccine geopolitics, analyzing why, and how this move happened, before looking at the ramifications in the context of Covid-19. This unique book uses eight country studies – looking at Croatia, India, Iran, the Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Spain, and Sweden – to explore the…
Goodbye global health
Over the past 20 or 30 years vast sums of money have gone into ?global health?. The money has funded vast initiatives largely focused on infectious disease control, as well as university centres and research projects. The numerous and varied definitions of global health share a normative element. Global health implies an egalitarian approach, treating everyone?s health needs equally, irrespective of citizenship, ethnicity or gender. If we look at…
Maya J. Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy
As Covid-19 vaccination gathers steam, though not everywhere, the fact that not everyone is wholly convinced of the benefits of vaccination is widely publicised. How to understand these doubts, anxieties, or downright refusals? It is nothing new. In the 1970s and 1980s, newly formed groups critical of vaccination became very visible on internet. Because their emergence seemed to parallel declining vaccination coverage a causal relation was posite…
Polio Vaccine Struggles
This article discusses the strategies and trajectories deployed by the Forum for the Advancement of Immunization Research (FAIR) to rehabilitate Salk’s inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), at a time when Sabin’s oral polio vaccine (OPV) had come to dominate the global polio vaccine market. FAIR was an international coalition of scientists and institutions that undertook specific field studies to establish the conditions under which IPV could usefully…
Turning suffering into side effects
How do unpleasant post-vaccination symptoms become recognized as vaccine 'side effects'? In this paper, we argue that it is not necessarily the logical outcome of scientific verification that it is said to be. The paper draws on an ethnographic study carried out in a small town, El Carmen de Bolivar, on Colombia's Caribbean coast from February through May 2019. In 2014, hundreds of girls in the town reported a range of mysterious symptoms followi…
Parents and grandparents of deaf children in Ecuador
Despite a growing number of anthropological studies of deaf communities, little attention has been paid to how socioeconomic and cultural factors influence the experiences and the concerns of hearing parents of deaf and hearing-impaired (DHI) children. This study draws on interviews with parents (and some grandparents) of DHI children in Ecuador, a country marked by profound inequality but also by considerable recent progress in poverty reduction…
Made to Hear
Why might regional vaccinology networks fail? The case of the Dutch-Nordic Consortium
We analyzed an attempt to develop and clinically test a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for the developing world, undertaken by public health institutions from the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland: the Dutch Nordic Consortium (DNC), between 1990 and 2000. Our review shows that the premature termination of the project was due less to technological and scientific challenges and more to managerial challenges and institutional policies…
In search of experiential knowledge
In recent years, the concept of “experiential knowledge” has increasingly been used to characterize the distinctive contribution patients make to decision-making in the health field. Even though it seems well-nigh impossible to characterize it precisely, there is no doubting its significance for decision-making contexts ranging from the individual to the political. Since individual experiences of any condition or treatment differ widely, whose ex…
Su guagua no escucha nada ’
In accordance with the social model of disability, this study proceeded from the assumption that parents’ experiences of a child’s hearing impairment reflect the circumstances of their lives rather than anything innate in the impairment itself. Few studies have explored the influence both of culture and social structure and of families’ economic and social resources. We studied families’ experiences of the diagnosis of hearing loss in Ecuador, a …
Medical Innovations
The 1950s and 1960s were a ‘golden age’ of medical progress: an era of high expectations, widespread faith, and life‐saving innovations. In the 1970s, as it gradually became clear that medicine's technological advance also contributed to the rising costs of health care, policy makers began to question the ways in which new technologies diffused. Sociologists soon found that professional and institutional interests, the search for competitive adva…
Measles Vaccination Before the Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine
At the beginning of the 1960s, it was clear that a vaccine against measles would soon be available. Although measles was (and remains) a killer disease in the developing world, in the United States and Western Europe this was no longer so. Many parents and many medical practitioners considered measles an inevitable stage of a child’s development. Debating the desirability of measles immunization, public health experts reasoned differently. In the…
Social Direction of the Public Sciences
Evidence and policymaking
Obituary
Anti-vaccination movements and their interpretations
Vaccine independence, local competences and globalisation
Shifts in global immunisation goals (1984-2004)
Citizens as Users of Technology
The Black Committee on Health Inequalities (1977-80)
D'une perspective « extrinsèque » en sociologie de la science
L'auteur critique d'abord la perspective qui a prévalu jusqu'à aujourd'hui chez les sociologues Américains des sciences et plus particulièrement chez R. K. Merton et ses étudiants qui est de considérer les sciences comme un vaste sous-système social autonome : un certain nombre d'évidences empiriques (correspondance entre valeurs et normes de la science et valeurs politiques, base " particulariste " du système de récompenses, rôles politico-scien…
Vaccinology
In the last few years numerous authors have claimed that changes are occurring in the relations between science and its application. Such changes have been sought, and found, in various ways and in various places. For example, the relations between patent and scienti ® c literatures have changed (Narin et al., 1997). So too have those between universities and industry (Leydesdorff and Etzkowitz, 1998). The implications of market orientation for u…
Land of Hope and Glory
This article deals with the author's experiences in studying cochlear implantation over a period of some years. While no overt controversy surrounded the device or the practices associated with it in the Netherlands when this work started (as was the case elsewhere), studying its introduction became complex. Following others, the research strategy that was evolved might be termed one of mediation and intervention. It entailed treating the views a…
Anti-vaccination movements and their interpretations
Toward a Political Sociology of Science
In search of experiential knowledge
In recent years, the concept of “experiential knowledge” has increasingly been used to characterize the distinctive contribution patients make to decision-making in the health field. Even though it seems well-nigh impossible to characterize it precisely, there is no doubting its significance for decision-making contexts ranging from the individual to the political. Since individual experiences of any condition or treatment differ widely, whose ex…
Shifts in global immunisation goals (1984-2004)
Histories of cochlear implantation
Perspectives in the Sociology of Science
The Rhetoric and Counter-Rhetoric of a "Bionic" Technology
Development of the cochlear implant, discussed in this article, depended vitally on deaf people being persuaded to undergo implantation. Media "reconstruction" of the device as the "bionic ear" was typically encouraged by implant pioneers. Unexpectedly, however, a "counter-rhetoric" based on a very different understanding of deafness emerged. With it, deaf people are slowly succeeding in gaining influence over the further deployment of the techno…
Toward a Political Sociology of Science
Vaccinology
In the last few years numerous authors have claimed that changes are occurring in the relations between science and its application. Such changes have been sought, and found, in various ways and in various places. For example, the relations between patent and scienti ® c literatures have changed (Narin et al., 1997). So too have those between universities and industry (Leydesdorff and Etzkowitz, 1998). The implications of market orientation for u…
Vaccine independence, local competences and globalisation
Medical Innovations
The 1950s and 1960s were a ‘golden age’ of medical progress: an era of high expectations, widespread faith, and life‐saving innovations. In the 1970s, as it gradually became clear that medicine's technological advance also contributed to the rising costs of health care, policy makers began to question the ways in which new technologies diffused. Sociologists soon found that professional and institutional interests, the search for competitive adva…
Policy as Theory
This paper is based on the view that since social science is concerned with the generation of codified knowledge of the social world its impact should be seen as principally upon other sets of ideas. It suggests that social policy may thus be conceptualized as an evolving sequence of concepts, theories and problems comparable with the cognitive development of science. At any time a variety of such 'paradigms' will be in competition. Embodiment of…
Su guagua no escucha nada ’
In accordance with the social model of disability, this study proceeded from the assumption that parents’ experiences of a child’s hearing impairment reflect the circumstances of their lives rather than anything innate in the impairment itself. Few studies have explored the influence both of culture and social structure and of families’ economic and social resources. We studied families’ experiences of the diagnosis of hearing loss in Ecuador, a …
Land of Hope and Glory
This article deals with the author's experiences in studying cochlear implantation over a period of some years. While no overt controversy surrounded the device or the practices associated with it in the Netherlands when this work started (as was the case elsewhere), studying its introduction became complex. Following others, the research strategy that was evolved might be termed one of mediation and intervention. It entailed treating the views a…
Explanation and Social Policy
Inequalities in rates of sickness and mortality between social groups has long been a matter of concern and of inquiry in Britain. Disciplinary differentiation has resulted in the problem now being treated within what have become three distinct intellectual traditions. These are social administration, epidemiology, and sociology, and the accounts they provide differ significantly from each other. This is partly because 'the' problem is somewhat d…
Turning suffering into side effects
How do unpleasant post-vaccination symptoms become recognized as vaccine 'side effects'? In this paper, we argue that it is not necessarily the logical outcome of scientific verification that it is said to be. The paper draws on an ethnographic study carried out in a small town, El Carmen de Bolivar, on Colombia's Caribbean coast from February through May 2019. In 2014, hundreds of girls in the town reported a range of mysterious symptoms followi…
Evidence and policymaking
Technology, Science, and Obstetric Practice
The process of technological change in obstetrics must be understood as contingent on the exigencies of the professional project, rather than in terms simply of improvement or dehumanization of care. Transformation in the procedures by which the female pelvis and the fetal head have been measured illustrate this point. The development of new measurement techniques was profoundly influenced by the shifting locus of obstetric care and by changing p…
Toward a Science Policy for the Social Welfare Field / Sozialpolitik – Plädoyer für eine wissenschaftliche Strategie
Die Arbeit versucht, auf die Notwendigkeit und die wichtigsten Merkmale aufmerksam zu machen, die eine institutionell verankerte, wissenschaftlich-innovatorische Anleitung der Sozialpolitik betreffen. Daß Anleitung dieser Art „notwendig“ ist, folgt aus dem Umstand, daß die Mittel, die die Regierungen für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und technologische Entwicklung aufwenden, zunehmend steigen, die Ergebnisse aber, die sie bewirken, bisher - w…
Polio Vaccine Struggles
This article discusses the strategies and trajectories deployed by the Forum for the Advancement of Immunization Research (FAIR) to rehabilitate Salk’s inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), at a time when Sabin’s oral polio vaccine (OPV) had come to dominate the global polio vaccine market. FAIR was an international coalition of scientists and institutions that undertook specific field studies to establish the conditions under which IPV could usefully…
Parents and grandparents of deaf children in Ecuador
Despite a growing number of anthropological studies of deaf communities, little attention has been paid to how socioeconomic and cultural factors influence the experiences and the concerns of hearing parents of deaf and hearing-impaired (DHI) children. This study draws on interviews with parents (and some grandparents) of DHI children in Ecuador, a country marked by profound inequality but also by considerable recent progress in poverty reduction…
Made to Hear
D'une perspective « extrinsèque » en sociologie de la science
L'auteur critique d'abord la perspective qui a prévalu jusqu'à aujourd'hui chez les sociologues Américains des sciences et plus particulièrement chez R. K. Merton et ses étudiants qui est de considérer les sciences comme un vaste sous-système social autonome : un certain nombre d'évidences empiriques (correspondance entre valeurs et normes de la science et valeurs politiques, base " particulariste " du système de récompenses, rôles politico-scien…
Social Stratification in Science
Professional Civil Servants
Research support in British universities
A Response to Malec
Toward a Political Sociology of Science
Toward a Science Policy for the Social Welfare Field / Sozialpolitik – Plädoyer für eine wissenschaftliche Strategie
Die Arbeit versucht, auf die Notwendigkeit und die wichtigsten Merkmale aufmerksam zu machen, die eine institutionell verankerte, wissenschaftlich-innovatorische Anleitung der Sozialpolitik betreffen. Daß Anleitung dieser Art „notwendig“ ist, folgt aus dem Umstand, daß die Mittel, die die Regierungen für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und technologische Entwicklung aufwenden, zunehmend steigen, die Ergebnisse aber, die sie bewirken, bisher - w…
Social Stratification in Science
Professional Civil Servants
Realismo' y 'alcances' en la sociología de la ciencia moderna
Toward a Political Sociology of Science
Policy as Theory
This paper is based on the view that since social science is concerned with the generation of codified knowledge of the social world its impact should be seen as principally upon other sets of ideas. It suggests that social policy may thus be conceptualized as an evolving sequence of concepts, theories and problems comparable with the cognitive development of science. At any time a variety of such 'paradigms' will be in competition. Embodiment of…
Perspectives in the Sociology of Science
Policy Studies and Social Policy in Britain
The recent debate about the establishment of a 'British Brookings' involved a number of fundamental issues which were not brought out. In fact the idea that the British policy-making process should be made more 'rational' through the development of what are sometimes called policy studies is not new. It has roots in the Heyworth Report on social studies, which recommended greater use of social research in policy-making, and in the Fulton Report o…
Perspectives in the Sociology of Science
Public science—A private view
Explanation and Social Policy
Inequalities in rates of sickness and mortality between social groups has long been a matter of concern and of inquiry in Britain. Disciplinary differentiation has resulted in the problem now being treated within what have become three distinct intellectual traditions. These are social administration, epidemiology, and sociology, and the accounts they provide differ significantly from each other. This is partly because 'the' problem is somewhat d…
Discussants' Comments
[The papers in this Theme Section were originally presented as case studies at a Workshop on `Federal Funding and Knowledge Growth'. At the Workshop, several discussants were given the opportunity to comment on the papers as a group, evaluating the potential of studies of this kind to illuminate science policy issues, and suggesting further topics for research. Condensed versions of their comments appear here, with the exception of Daniel Sulliva…
The Theoretical Significance of Co-operative Research
The Social Direction of the Public Sciences
Social Science and Social Policy
Politique de la science et technologie
The Social Direction of the Public Sciences
I Co-operative Processes and the Production of Scientific Knowledge.- The Theoretical Significance of Co-operative Research.- The Practical Management of Scientists' Actions: The Influence of Patterns of Knowledge Development in Biology on Cooperations Between University Biologists and Non-Scientists.- II Collaborations Between Scientists and Non-Scientists at the Grassroots.- Cooperation Between Medical Researchers and a Self-Help Movement: The …
Technology, Science, and Obstetric Practice
The process of technological change in obstetrics must be understood as contingent on the exigencies of the professional project, rather than in terms simply of improvement or dehumanization of care. Transformation in the procedures by which the female pelvis and the fetal head have been measured illustrate this point. The development of new measurement techniques was profoundly influenced by the shifting locus of obstetric care and by changing p…
The Rhetoric and Counter-Rhetoric of a "Bionic" Technology
Development of the cochlear implant, discussed in this article, depended vitally on deaf people being persuaded to undergo implantation. Media "reconstruction" of the device as the "bionic ear" was typically encouraged by implant pioneers. Unexpectedly, however, a "counter-rhetoric" based on a very different understanding of deafness emerged. With it, deaf people are slowly succeeding in gaining influence over the further deployment of the techno…
Histories of cochlear implantation
Vaccinology
In the last few years numerous authors have claimed that changes are occurring in the relations between science and its application. Such changes have been sought, and found, in various ways and in various places. For example, the relations between patent and scienti ® c literatures have changed (Narin et al., 1997). So too have those between universities and industry (Leydesdorff and Etzkowitz, 1998). The implications of market orientation for u…
Land of Hope and Glory
This article deals with the author's experiences in studying cochlear implantation over a period of some years. While no overt controversy surrounded the device or the practices associated with it in the Netherlands when this work started (as was the case elsewhere), studying its introduction became complex. Following others, the research strategy that was evolved might be termed one of mediation and intervention. It entailed treating the views a…
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