Patzke+Research+Design+2


 * MEMO: RESEARCH DESIGN GRID **


 * **AIMS** ||  **QUESTIONS**  ||  **DATA COLLECTION**  ||  **EMERGERING ARGUMENTS**  ||  **LITERATURES**  ||
 * Produce new understandings of interactions (the production of ‘social order’) between science and law. || How do legal technologies influence access to scientific discoveries?

How do these scientific-legal artifacts go out in the world and act? || Policy, legal, and scientific document/discourse analysis and ethnographic observation || Intellectual property (and licensing) limit access due to conflicts between public health and commercial profit.

Policy incentives are formed on commercial success and not public health. || Anthro of Law (Riles, Strathern, Rabinow, Marcus)

Sociology of Science

STS – law and Science

STS of finance? ||
 * Discover (and highlight) interventions from unexpected places || How does patient and scientific advocacy intervene and affect legal work?

What is the future of ‘genetic healthcare’ in the US? || ‘Legal fictions’

Interviews with advocacy groups – Genetic Alliance, PubPat, ACLU

Policy analysis

Health advocacy – Steven Epstein, Jenny Reardon || Legal reasoning allows for hypothesizing about both alternative formats and the future (legal imaginaries).

Deliberation and community involvement promote diverse avenues of research and unexpected aflliations (Genetic Alliance). || Legal scholarship – adjudication and precedent

STS of finance? ||
 * Evaluate(?) possible projections of the current healthcare terrain in the US || What are the implications of healthcare when aligned with metaphors of property and ownerships? || * Analysis of US cases to identify possible ‘trends’


 * Interviews with scientists


 * Observations of interactions between scientists and institutional lawyers
 * || There is tension between the healthcare industry and the US move to standardize and universalize healthcare.
 * As ‘property’ is assigned to research, rights of access are not universal || * Crystal balls
 * Ouija boards ||