eprintid: 10118583 rev_number: 32 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/11/85/83 datestamp: 2021-01-15 12:23:02 lastmod: 2022-01-30 07:10:13 status_changed: 2021-02-03 10:28:52 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Datta Burton, S creators_name: Kieslich, K creators_name: Paul, KT creators_name: Samuel, G creators_name: Prainsack, B title: Rethinking value construction in biomedicine and healthcare ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F48 keywords: Value, Genomics, Artifcial intelligence, Health technology assessment, Vaccination, Value-based healthcare note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: Despite longstanding attempts to conceptualise and measure value in biomedicine and healthcare, there is no single agreed definition of what value is. Instead, and as such, value is often taken as given or constructed in economic terms. In this paper, we argue that taking the meaning of value as given, or reverting to technocratic or economic dimensions of value, obscures the non-technical and societal dimensions of value construction and operationalisation in healthcare and biomedical practices. Through a comparative study of five cases of biomedicine and healthcare, we aim to bring out the socioeconomic and political processes that make a thing valuable for society and its implications. Our contention is that a clearer understanding of what makes something valuable (or not) is the first step towards what socially reflexive and responsible valuing of biomedicine and healthcare ought to be. date: 2021-01-29 date_type: published publisher: Palgrave Macmillan official_url: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-020-00220-6 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1841037 doi: 10.1057/s41292-020-00220-6 lyricists_name: Datta Burton, Saheli lyricists_id: SDATT23 actors_name: Austen, Jennifer actors_id: JAUST66 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: BioSocieties citation: Datta Burton, S; Kieslich, K; Paul, KT; Samuel, G; Prainsack, B; (2021) Rethinking value construction in biomedicine and healthcare. BioSocieties 10.1057/s41292-020-00220-6 <https://doi.org/10.1057/s41292-020-00220-6>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10118583/9/Datta%20Burton_Rethinking%20value%20construction%20in%20biomedicine%20and%20healthcare%20-%20Preprint.pdf