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Collaboration across Health Research and Medical Care Healthy Collaboration
246 Pages
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Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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Health research and health care practice are radically transforming as governments invest more in large scale, national and international health projects with increasing levels of interdisciplinarity as populations age and as nations grow wealthier. This volume examines the structures and dynamics of scientific collaboration in health research and health care. Bringing together detailed research... Read more
Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 When Scientists, Scholars, Clinicians, Physicians and Patients Meet, Bart Penders, John N. Parker, Niki Vermeulen; Chapter 2 The Evolution of Collaborations in Health Sciences Measured by Co-authorship, Pauline Mattsson; Part II Collaboration in Health Research; Chapter 3 From Virus to Vaccine, Niki Vermeulen; Chapter 4 Who Wants to Collaborate with Social Scientists?Credible to Collaborators Themselves, David Schleifer; Part III Collaborative Health Infrastructures; Chapter 6 The Compound Collaborations of Clinical Registries, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Linus Johansson Krafve; Chapter 7 Scripted Collaboration, Inge Lecluijze, Bart Penders, Frans Feron, Klasien Horstman; Part IV Collaboration in Health Care; Chapter 8 Shifting Collaborations and the Quest for Legitimacy, Koichi Mikami; Chapter 9 Boundary-Spanning Engagements on a Neonatal Ward, Jessica Mesman; Chapter 10 Health Care Collaboration Between Patients and Physicians, Benjamin Lewin; Part V Conclusion; Chapter 11 The Health of Collaborations, Andrew Webster;
Biography
Bart Penders is an assistant professor in Biomedine and Society in the Department of Health, Ethics and Society at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is co-editor of Collaboration in the New Life Sciences. Niki Vermeulen is Lecturer in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and co-editor of Collaboration in the New Life Sciences and Bio-Objects: Life in the 21st Century. John N. Parker is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University. He is co-editor of Collaboration in the New Life Sciences.
’Rather than an uncritical celebration of interdisciplinarity, the contributions to this volume shed light on how people and things actually collaborate and travel in and between different disciplines and domains. This book makes for great reading, particularly for those of us who the current veneration of big data medicine leaves wanting a more sober and fine-grained analysis of changing practices in health and medicine.’ Barbara Prainsack, King’s College London, UK
