Journal article
Empowering Technologies: Connecting Women and Science in Microbicide Research
Sciences sociales et santé, v 18(2)
01 Jun 2000
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Abstract
A key contribution of this article is its reconceptualization of biomedical innovation to feature new social forms of innovation -- collaborations among groups with heretofore dramatically different agendas. I reconceptualize biomedical innovation using a case study of an instance in which women's health advocates on microbicides (WHAM) entered the corridors of power to work with the Population Council (PC) from 1994 to 1997. The goal of the collaboration was to improve women's reproductive health by developing a woman-controlled method of protection against sexually transmitted infections. The process for reaching this goal was to bring together those positioned "within" & those positioned "outside" reproductive science. Microbicide research is only beginning to move from the laboratory to the field, & women's health advocates have been working inside the world of contraceptive research for only a few years. Nonetheless, I conclude that the collaboration has initiated democratizing processes in biomedical innovation. 44 References. Adapted from the source document.
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- Title
- Empowering Technologies: Connecting Women and Science in Microbicide Research
- Creators
- Susan Bell
- Publication Details
- Sciences sociales et santé, v 18(2)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- French
- Academic Unit
- Sociology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000088321900006
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0034195363
- Other Identifier
- 991020638463304721
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