Patzke+Study+Components

Study Components (in Chronological Order)


 * 1. Review of Primary Literature**
 * - legal documents, legal scholarship
 * - what is the current state of the field?
 * - STS research in both genetics and the law
 * - how to scientists do their work ?
 * - or how do STS scholars see that work?
 * - economic and risk scholarship as they relate to both healthcare and patenting
 * - hardest part – most unfamiliar
 * - identify ‘gaps’ or deficiencies in the established scholarly record
 * - direct interviews and future research to fill this.


 * 2. Development of Interview Questions and sites for observation**
 * - who to interview?
 * - judges, lawyers, clients (plaintiffs and defendants)
 * - clerks (processing paperwork in courts)
 * - laboratory geneticists (learn about chemical laboratory work)
 * - biotech labs (what is the structure of these places)
 * - open source software creators
 * - public advocacy groups (Genetic Alliance)


 * 3. Ethnographic Oral History Interviews**
 * - with the people listed above
 * - process/protocol of interviewing:
 * - script is created
 * - interviews are recorded with two devices
 * - transcripts are written in record time.
 * - transcripts are copied and delivered to interviewees for approval


 * 4. Participant Observation**
 * - in courts and labs
 * - USPTO?


 * 5. Data Analysis**
 * - transcribe and code interviews
 * - evaluate interview data
 * - evaluate written observations
 * - confirm/identify gaps within known academic research
 * - validation interviews – with people from step 2.
 * - do my conclusions make sense to some of them?
 * - did I get major facts/events/etc correct?
 * - publish awesome articles and books
 * - world renown.