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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Digital Drugs
An Anatomy of New Medicines
Authors : Tony Cornford, Valentina Lichtner
Published in: Information Systems and Global Assemblages. (Re)Configuring Actors, Artefacts, Organizations
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Medicines are digitalized as aspects of their regulation and use are embodied in or draw from interlinked computerized systems and databases. This paper considers how this development changes the delivery of health care, the pharma industry, and regulatory and professional structures, as it reconfigures the material character of drugs themselves. It draws on the concept of assemblage in presenting a theory-based analysis that explores digital drugs’ ontological status including how they embody benefit and value. The paper addresses three interconnected domains – that of use of drugs (practice), of research (epistemology) and of regulation (structures).