Papers by Thomas Schlich
Social Studies of Science, 2009
Abstract This special issue of Social Studies of Science centers on the topic of regulation in me... more Abstract This special issue of Social Studies of Science centers on the topic of regulation in medicine and, in particular, on the notion of regulatory objectivity, defined as a new form of objectivity in biomedicine that generates conventions and norms through concerted ...
Social Science & Medicine, 2006
Clinical practice guidelines are now ubiquitous. This article describes the emergence of such gui... more Clinical practice guidelines are now ubiquitous. This article describes the emergence of such guidelines in a way that differs from the two dominant explanations, one focusing on administrative cost-cutting and the other on the need to protect collective professional autonomy. Instead, this article argues
that the spread of guidelines represents a new regulation of medical care resulting from a confluence of circumstances that mobilized many different groups. Although the regulation of quality has traditionally been based on the standardization of professional credentials, since the 1960s it has intensified
and been supplemented by efforts to standardize the use of medical procedures. This shift is related to the spread of standardization within medicine
and especially in research, public health, and large bureaucratic health care
organizations.
Milbank Quarterly, 2007
Clinical practice guidelines are now ubiquitous. This article describes the emergence of such gui... more Clinical practice guidelines are now ubiquitous. This article describes the emergence of such guidelines in a way that differs from the two dominant explanations, one focusing on administrative cost-cutting and the other on the need to protect collective professional autonomy. Instead, this article argues that the spread of guidelines represents a new regulation of medical care resulting from a confluence of circumstances that mobilized many different groups. Although the regulation of quality has traditionally been based on the standardization of professional credentials, since the 1960s it has intensified and been supplemented by efforts to standardize the use of medical procedures. This shift is related to the spread of standardization within medicine and especially in research, public health, and large bureaucratic health care organizations.
Conceptual Frameworks and Commentaries by Thomas Schlich
Social Science & Medicine, 2007
By serving as experimental models for human disease, animals have been instrumental to constructi... more By serving as experimental models for human disease, animals have been instrumental to constructing biomedical knowledge. On the other hand, animals themselves increasingly benefit from biomedical expertise and technologies, as patients in their own right. Healthy companion animals have recently come to be viewed explicitly as potential sources of human health, which contrasts with the potential for animals to injure people or transmit infectious disease. In studies of biomedical and other health knowledges, nevertheless, only the animal model role has been explored in any depth. In this review article, we sketch and discuss three research concerns that currently inform studies of biomedical knowledge: medicalization and biomedicalization; constructing biomedical knowledge; and a concern with heterogeneity. We conclude that a more comprehensive and nuanced account of contemporary societies will result from further consideration of the importance of animals for how people understand health.
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Papers by Thomas Schlich
that the spread of guidelines represents a new regulation of medical care resulting from a confluence of circumstances that mobilized many different groups. Although the regulation of quality has traditionally been based on the standardization of professional credentials, since the 1960s it has intensified
and been supplemented by efforts to standardize the use of medical procedures. This shift is related to the spread of standardization within medicine
and especially in research, public health, and large bureaucratic health care
organizations.
Conceptual Frameworks and Commentaries by Thomas Schlich
that the spread of guidelines represents a new regulation of medical care resulting from a confluence of circumstances that mobilized many different groups. Although the regulation of quality has traditionally been based on the standardization of professional credentials, since the 1960s it has intensified
and been supplemented by efforts to standardize the use of medical procedures. This shift is related to the spread of standardization within medicine
and especially in research, public health, and large bureaucratic health care
organizations.