Internet clinical trials

Examining new disciplinary experiments in health care

Bibliographic Data

ID12930615
AuthorsJenny Advocat (0000-0001-7965-2244, Monash University, corresponding author)
Year1970
Volume7
Issue1
Publication date1970-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology Matters (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1758-6453 • E-ISSN: 1758-6453
PublisherNomadIT (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.22582/am.v7i1.90
OpenAlexW1576277464
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

Internet-based clinical trials are the latest example of how technology is involved in altering the relationships between medical research institutions and society. This has the potential to change drastically the creation, delivery and access to health care research. An anthropology of science, technology and medicine is well-suited to examine the ways in which relationships (such as doctor-patient) are rearticulated in light of the deployment of new technologies in biomedicine. This paper examines how internet-based clinical trials may create socio-technical networks that form new kinds of subjects. Drawing on actor network theory, I discuss how the internet is co-opted for health research as an experimental disciplinary technology to constitute, normalize and shape the conduct of nomadic consumer-subjects for the purposes of developing new regimes of governing the health of populations

Bioinformatics · Biomedicine · Clinical trial · Discipline · Engineering ethics · Health care · Health care delivery · Health technology · Medical research · Pathology · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Software deployment · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Engineering · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Law · Medicine

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