Patzke+Research+Design

Karin Patzke February 14, 2013 Work in Progress ** MEMO: RESEARCH DESIGN GRID **


 * **AIMS** ||  **QUESTIONS**  ||  **DATA COLLECTION**  ||  **EMERGERING ARGUMENTS**  ||  **LITERATURES**  ||
 * Produce new understandings of interactions between science and law. || How do legal technologies influence access to scientific discoveries? || Policy, legal, and scientific document/discourse analysis || * 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

What is the future of ‘genetic healthcare’ in the US? || * ‘Legal fictions’
 * STS – law and Science ||
 * Discover (and highlight) interventions from unexpected places. || How does patient and scientific advocacy affect legal constructions?


 * Interviews with public advocacy groups


 * Policy analysis || * Legal reasoning allows for hypothesizing about both alternative formats and the future (legal imaginaries).
 * Deliberation and community involvement promote diverse avenues of research (Genetic Alliance). || * Health advocacy – Steven Epstein, Jenny Reardon
 * Legal scholarship – adjudication and precedent ||
 * 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


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