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Promissory and protective imaginaries of regenerative medicine: expectations work and scenario maintenance of disease research charities in the United Kingdom
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posted on 2023-06-07, 07:05 authored by Sandhya Duggal, Alex FaulknerThis article draws upon recent scholarship on technoscientific imaginaries and the sociology of technology expectations to reveal the mediating roles played by a number of disease-focused research charities in the United Kingdom. We examine the expectations they deal with about regenerative medicine research, and how they develop strategies to support and ‘protect’ potential medical scenarios for new therapies for dread diseases. In so doing, we develop and detail a concept of scenario maintenance to denote the strategic discursive and practical work of preserving stakeholders’ faith in specific disease research pathways in the face of obstacles. Semi-structured in-depth interviews (N = 10) of research managers at nine research charities were qualitatively analysed, alongside a variety of charities’ documentary data. Our analysis yielded three themes: managing and moderating media expectations; specifying expectations about disease-specific appropriateness of regenerative medicine; and maintaining scenarios of possible pathways for future success taking challenges into account.
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Public Understanding of ScienceISSN
0963-6625Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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4Volume
29Page range
392-407Pages
16.0Department affiliated with
- International Relations Publications
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2020-05-26First Open Access (FOA) Date
2020-05-26First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2020-05-26Usage metrics
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