Promissory and protective imaginaries of regenerative medicine
Expectations work and scenario maintenance of disease research charities in the United Kingdom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20403299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sandhya Duggal (0000-0003-4477-7623, University of Birmingham, corresponding author), Alex Faulkner (0000-0002-0492-6316, University of Sussex) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 392-407 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Understanding of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0963-6625 • E-ISSN: 1361-6609 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0963662520920824 |
| PMID | 32434460 |
| OpenAlex | W3026619287 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article draws upon recent scholarship on technoscientific imaginaries and the sociology of technology expectations to reveal the mediating roles played by a number of disease-focused research charities in the United Kingdom. We examine the expectations they deal with about regenerative medicine research, and how they develop strategies to support and ‘protect’ potential medical scenarios for new therapies for dread diseases. In so doing, we develop and detail a concept of scenario maintenance to denote the strategic discursive and practical work of preserving stakeholders’ faith in specific disease research pathways in the face of obstacles. Semi-structured in-depth interviews (N = 10) of research managers at nine research charities were qualitatively analysed, alongside a variety of charities’ documentary data. Our analysis yielded three themes: managing and moderating media expectations; specifying expectations about disease-specific appropriateness of regenerative medicine; and maintaining scenarios of possible pathways for future success taking challenges into account
Disease · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Faith · Medical research · Political science · Public relations · Regenerative medicine · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Stem cell · Biomedical and Engineering Education · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Engineering · Law · Medicine · Science, Research, and Medicine
Technoscience, imagined publics and public imaginations
Dreamscapes of Modernity
Promissory futures and possible pasts
Stem Cell Stories 1998–2008
Promising pessimism
The business of expectations
Intensifying embroilments
Forecasting science futures
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Temporality and Prudence
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |