ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Beyond Thalidomide: The Patient as an Agent of Change
Beyond Thalidomide will trace the historical rise of patient engagement with drug related disability through the second half of the twentieth century to understand how a novel empowered group transformed conceptions of (reproductive) health and disease in science and society. The project will map the conditions in which patient became engaged with antenatal drug use, and reconstruct how their action has created political and scientific urgency since 1960. This multifaceted engagement resulted in clashes of expertise that connected actors in the ‘Global South’ and ‘North’, from Latin American countries through Central Africa, India, and Europe, and the enforcement and stabilization of the…
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