Straight outta the tropics
Pathological Features of Techno-Scientific Promises in Neglected Tropical Disease Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4448048 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hugo Ferpozzi (0000-0002-1859-9993, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 205-226 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tapuya Latin American Science Technology and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2572-9861 • E-ISSN: 2572-9861 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/25729861.2020.1819078 |
| OpenAlex | W3109360609 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 41 |
To gain support, scientific and technological promises need to be credible and address legitimate issues. This article explores this production of legitimacy and credibility that sustains techno-scientific promises in neglected tropical disease research, a group of infectious diseases that affect one billion individuals globally but remain largely excluded from the scope of the pharmaceutical industry. Specifically, I examine the dynamics of techno-scientific promises and expectations by focusing on Chagas disease research in Argentina, where neglected tropical diseases have been deemed legitimate objects of research efforts but, at the same time, they depend on international connections with high-profile stakeholders to become credible. However, in a context marked by the rise of global health organizations and the recent engagement of the pharmaceutical industry, these kinds of commitments to research and development to fight against neglected tropical diseases have resulted in three distinct “pathological features” or mismatches in their structures of expectations: the asymmetry between beneficiaries and scientific and technological decision-makers; the affected populations’ inability to invest in the hopes and expectations embodied in potential healthcare technologies; and the performative effects of techno-scientific promises, whereby leading solutions for neglected tropical diseases align with the rule of mainstream technoscience but hold only rhetorical continuity with formulations of the problem that originate in public health policies and discourse
Credibility · Disease · Epistemology · Geography · Legitimacy · Mainstream · Neglected tropical diseases · Political science · Public relations · Scientific evidence · Tropical disease · Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences · Law · Medicine · Parasites and Host Interactions · Trypanosoma species research and implications
The culture of public problems
Neglected Tropical Diseases in Biosocial Perspective
On the economics of techno-scientific promises
From authority to authenticity
Social Research and Social Practice in Post-Positivist Society
Chagas Disease in Argentina
The Political Economy of Hope
International Ties at Peripheral Sites
Ninety Years of Chagas Disease
Regimes of Knowledge Production in Society
The Pharmaceutical Commons
The Growing Engagement of Emergent Concerned Groups in Political and Economic Life
Appropriation et régulation des innovations biotechnologiques
Bioexpectations
Moving From Outsider to Insider Status Through Metrics
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |