The entanglement of scientific and political claims:towards a new form of patients’ activism

Madeleine Akrich, Orla O'Donovan and Vololona Rabeharisoa
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Madeleine Akrich: Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Mines ParisTech
Orla O'Donovan: Department of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork
Vololona Rabeharisoa: Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Mines ParisTech

No 35, CSI Working Papers Series from Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), Mines ParisTech

Abstract: The article documents and analyzes patients organizations- and groups of activists’ “evidence-based activism†, and the compound dynamic interplay between politics of illness and politics of knowledge it entails in the four condition areas studied: ADHD, Alzheimer, rare diseases and childbirth.

Keywords: patient organizations; health activism; evidence-based activism; healthcare policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 Z18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2013-12
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