Public Good, or Goods for the Public: The Commercialization of Academic Health Research
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2020
Keywords
Academic Research, Health Research, Scientific Research, Canada
Abstract
In Health Matters, contributors from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary traditions address multiple dimensions of health care, such as nursing, midwifery, home care, pharmaceuticals, medical education, and palliative care. Through their explorations, the book poses questions about the role that the forms of expertise associated with evidence-based health care play in shaping how we understand and organize health services. Authors critique instrumental, managerial ways of knowing health care and focus on how such ways of knowing limit our understandings of and responses to health care problems and are linked with the growing commodification, individualization, and privatization of Canadian health services. Working with analytic perspectives such as feminism, Marxist political economy, critical ethnography, science and technology studies, governmentality studies, and institutional ethnography, the volume demonstrates how critical social science perspectives contribute alternative perspectives about what counts as health care problems and how to best to address them.
Recommended Citation
Kelly Holloway & Matthew Herder, "Public Good, or Goods for the Public: The Commercialization of Academic Health Research" in Eric Mykhalovskiy et al, eds, Health Matters: Evidence, Critical Social Science, and Health Care in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020) 172.
