Collaboration Across Health Research and Medical Care : Healthy Collaboration

Bringing together detailed research from the US, Canada, Europe and Japan, this book sheds light on the features, environments, and relationships that characterise collaboration in health care and research, exploring changing patterns of collaboration and examining the causes and consequences of team work in the health domain. Health research and health care practice are radically transforming as governments invest more in large scale, national and international health projects with increasing levels of interdisciplinarity as populations age and as nations grow wealthier. This volume examines the structures and dynamics of scientific collaboration in health research and health care. Bringing together detailed research from the US, Canada, Europe and Japan, Collaboration Across Health Research and Medical Care sheds light on the features, environments and relationships that characterise collaboration in health care and research, exploring changing patterns of collaboration and examining the causes and consequences of team work in the health domain. With attention to the increasingly porous boundaries between health care and research, the book not only investigates research settings, but also considers the manner in which knowledge produced in laboratories and clinics is translated into day-to-day medical and care practice and health initiatives. It offers a rich examination of the political, technical and organisational facets of collaboration and the implications of changes in collaboration for every day treatment and practice, Collaboration Across Health Research and Medical Care will be of interest to scholars of sociology and science and technology studies, as well as those working in the field of health policy and research Machine Generated Contents Note: Pt. I Introduction -- 1. When Scientists, Scholars, Clinicians, Physicians And Patients Meet / Niki Vermeulen -- 2. The Evolution Of Collaborations In Health Sciences Measured By Co-authorship / Pauline Mattsson -- Pt. Ii Collaboration In Health Research -- 3. From Virus To Vaccine: Projectification Of Science In The Virgo Consortium / Niki Vermeulen -- 4. Who Wants To Collaborate With Social Scientists? Biomedical And Clinical Scientists' Perceptions Of Social Science / Brian D. Hodges -- 5. Credible To Collaborators Themselves: How Corporations And Trade Associations Made Trans Fats Into A Problem / David Schleifer Pt. Iii Collaborative Health Infrastructures -- 6. The Compound Collaborations Of Clinical Registries / Linus Johansson Krafve -- 7. Scripted Collaboration: Digitalisation Of Care For Children / Klasien Horstman -- Pt. Iv Collaboration In Health Care -- 8. Shifting Collaborations And The Quest For Legitimacy: Observation Of Regenerative Medicine Research In Japan / Koichi Mikami -- 9. Boundary-spanning Engagements On A Neonatal Ward: Reflections On A Collaborative Entanglement Between Clinicians And A Researcher / Jessica Mesman -- 10. Health Care Collaboration Between Patients And Physicians / Benjamin Lewin -- Pt. V Conclusion -- 11. The Health Of Collaborations: A Reflection / Andrew Webster. Edited By Bart Penders, Niki Vermeulen And John N. Parker. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.