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Genes as drugs: the social shaping of gene therapy and the reconstruction of genetic disease

1999-09-01

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This paper examines the utility of using concepts from the sociology of technology to investigate how new technologies and new disease concepts are co‐constructed. For researchers to introduce gene therapy into experimental clinical practice, they had to engage in a process of heterogeneous social‐technical engineering. This included: the construction of local networks of regulators, genes, firms, clinicians and p...

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Literature Corpus work: 2d0057c0-6a0b-54a9-af17-a0a90bcfec89
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.00171

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