Fakes, fabrications and counterfeits: interrogating the social, political and ethical features of pseudo-Global Health (360G-Wellcome-204632_Z_16_Z)

£6,292

For many decades STS scholars have examined the boundaries between science and pseudo-science, quackery and authentic scientific methodology. These examinations of so-called pseudo-scientific practices, concepts and methods have yielded great insight into the porous divide between what counts as seemingly authentic and inauthentic science. Drawing on concepts and methods developed within STS, this symposium seeks to interrogate areas considered pseudo-global health, namely practices and methods that are deemed inauthentic. Ideas of pseudo-global health have dominated the discourse in the growing markets of counterfeit drugs, equipment and vaccines, to data fabrications and fakes. Such activities are often regarded as undermining ‘real’ global health initiatives and goals. These discussions are premised on ideas that ‘real’, ‘unreal’, ‘authentic’ and ‘inauthentic’ global health is clearly recognisable and moreover, that all global health actors value the same thing(s) – namely that a particular view of authenticity or realness overrides all other concerns. This meeting seeks to address the absence of methodological and theoretical attention given to exploring the social, political and ethical value in pseudo-global health activities. We seek to interrogate the binary positions between ‘real’, ‘pseudo’, ‘authentic’ and ‘inauthentic,’ and elucidate what is often buried in these concepts: the people, processes and agendas.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 6292
Applicant Surname Kingori
Approval Committee Internal Decision Panel for C&S
Award Date 2016-08-31T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2015/16
Grant Programme: Title Small grant in H&SS
Internal ID 204632/Z/16/Z
Lead Applicant Prof Patricia Kingori
Partnership Value 6292
Planned Dates: End Date 2017-04-30T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2016-10-18T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region South East