ISSN:
0745-5194
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Medical anthropology quarterly : international journal for the analysis of health
Publ. der Quelle:
Malden, Mass. [u.a.] : Blackwell Publishing
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 29, No. 2 (2015), p. 216-236
DDC:
570
Abstract:
In the era of evidence‐based health care, conferences aimed at disseminating scientific knowledge perform an essential role in shaping policy and research agendas and transforming physician practice. Drawing on observations at two U.S. cancer prevention conferences aimed at knowledge translation, we examine the ways that evidence regarding the relationship between cancer and lifestyle is articulated and enacted. We show that characterizations of the evidence base at the conferences far outstripped what is presently known about the relationship between cancer and lifestyle. The messages presented to conference participants were also personalized and overtly moralistic, with attendees engaged not merely as practitioners but as members of the public at risk for cancer. We conclude that conferences seeking to bring together knowledge “makers” and knowledge “users” play a potentially important role in the production of scientific facts and are worthy of further study as distinct sites of knowledge production. [cancer, lifestyle, conferences, evidence‐based practice, knowledge translation]
Note:
Copyright: © 2015 by the American Anthropological Association
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Copyright: © 2015 by the American Anthropological Association.
URL:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maq.12152/abstract
URL:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25314663
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1699241215
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