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   
 
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