Complicating cure: How Australian criminal law shapes imagined post‐hepatitis C futures

Seear, Kate; Mulcahy, Sean; Kagan, Dion; Lenton, Emily; Fraser, Suzanne; Valentine, Kylie; Farrugia, Adrian

doi:10.1111/1467-9566.13562

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“…Coming right up to date, two papers in 2022 reference Latour to talk about hepatitis C. One makes a point in relation to the law, where the law counts as ‘legal verification’ (2009, 2013), as described in Seear et al. (2022). The other draws on Latour (2004b) to describe the processes of making hepatitis C through ‘social and material relations’ (Farrugia et al., 2022) citing Farrugia et al.…”

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“…(Latour, 2020) Rabi uses this observation to frame his discussion of coronavirus as normalised and encapsulated in the Israeli response to the pandemic. Coming right up to date, two papers in 2022 reference Latour to talk about hepatitis C. One makes a point in relation to the law, where the law counts as 'legal verification ' (2009, 2013), as described in Seear et al (2022). The other draws on Latour (2004b) to describe the processes of making hepatitis C through 'social and material relations' (Farrugia et al, 2022) citing Farrugia et al (2019) on the ways in which diagnosis happens through a gathering of elements, social and material.…”

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The contribution of Professor Bruno Latour to the sociology of health and illness: 1947–2022

Will

2023

Sociology Health & Illness

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Bruno Latour was a prolific writer and commentator. His work ranged from questioning the status of the scientific fact (Latour & Woolgar, 1979) to considering how Pasteur's work came about (Latour, 1993) to discussing the status of theory and exploring how we come to love technology (Latour, 1996), and then most recently to considering both the law and the environment as 'matters of concern ' (Latour, 2004a) and 'modes of existence ' (Latour, 2011). Although he never published in Sociology of Health and Illness (SHI) himself, his work has been influential in different strands of work across the field and I offer a brief overview of this influence here. Though I look for papers across the journal, I'll make special mention of the small number that cite his name as a keyword to illustrate the argument. SOCIOTECHNICAL NETWORKS IN ETHNOGRAPHYThe first use of Latour is in a paper by Dodier and Camus (2001) on dealing with patients in a hospital emergency service. They draw on Dingwall and Murray (1983) both to ground their approach and later to talk about the limitations of previous work. For example, they also cite Jeffery (1979) on 'good and bad' patients, but to illustrate their point that 'trivia, drunks, overdoses, tramps-but also nutcases, smelly, dirty, obese patients' are not the same (p. 416). In concluding they suggest that references to specialism vary depending on the closeness of the case to an emergency-depending very much on the relationship of a specific doctor and specific patient-and on the case's intellectual interest (p. 439). Some in emergency services respond to social demands, some do not, so the openness and specialisation of the emergency department is contested (e.g. France is good at mobilising) (Jeffery, 1979). Finally, they note that their ethnographic and comparative work help identify a 'complex web of relationships built up between the people responsible for treatment', (p. 440) which creates the accessibility of services for patients facing alcohol or drug addiction or malarial rash or an infarction. For those who have come to sociology from Foucault, this was a powerful invitation to learn more about the field through Bruno Latour's eyes, using his discussion of 'the discovery of networks' (Latour, 1987).The next use as a keyword is in a paper by Gomart (2002) on addiction-again using an ethnographic method. Gomart cited Latour to support an interest in the setting. Latour, she reminded us that: 'Speaking of her new study on sheep, [Thelma Rowell] stated one of her "biases" in the following way: "I tried to give my sheep the opportunity to behave like chimps, not that I believe that they would be like chimps, but because I am sure that if you take sheep for boring sheep by opposition to intelligent chimps they would not have E D I T O R I A L

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confidence: 99%

The contribution of Professor Bruno Latour to the sociology of health and illness: 1947–2022

Will

2023

Sociology Health & Illness

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What is a cure through gene therapy? An analysis and evaluation of the use of “cure”

Baas,

Meijer,

Bredenoord

et al. 2024

Med Health Care and Philos

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The development of gene therapy has always come with the expectation that it will offer a cure for various disorders, of which hemophilia is a paradigm example. However, although the term is used regularly, it is unclear what exactly is meant with “cure”. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyse how the concept of cure is used in practice and evaluate which of the interpretations is most suitable in discussions surrounding gene therapy. We analysed how cure is used in four different medical fields where the concept raises discussion. We show that cure can be used in three different ways: cure as normalization of the body, cure as obtaining a normal life, or cure as a change in identity. We argue that since cure is a practical term, its interpretation should be context-specific and the various uses can exist simultaneously, as long as their use is suitable to the function the notion of cure plays in each of the settings. We end by highlighting three different settings in the domain of hemophilia gene therapy in which the term cure is used and explore the function(s) it serves in each setting. We conclude that in the clinical application of gene therapy, it could be better to abandon the term cure, whereas more modest and specified definitions of cure are required in the context of health resource allocation decisions and decisions on research funding.

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'We've got a present for you’: Hepatitis C elimination, compromised healthcare subjects and treatment as a gift

Farrugia,

Lenton,

Seear

et al. 2024

Social Science & Medicine

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Complicating cure: How Australian criminal law shapes imagined post‐hepatitis C futures

Cited by 5 publications

References 23 publications

The contribution of Professor Bruno Latour to the sociology of health and illness: 1947–2022

The contribution of Professor Bruno Latour to the sociology of health and illness: 1947–2022

What is a cure through gene therapy? An analysis and evaluation of the use of “cure”

'We've got a present for you’: Hepatitis C elimination, compromised healthcare subjects and treatment as a gift

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