Embodied values: post-pharmaceutical health and the accumulation of surplus vitality in regenerative stem cell medicine

Christian Haddad

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dc.creator	Christian Haddad
dc.date	2019
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-17T19:37:48Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-17T19:37:48Z
dc.identifier	http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=86860243003
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/55782
dc.description	This paper analyzes an emerging form of post-pharmaceutical health and its underlying regime of value in the global bioeconomy of regenerative stem cell-based medicine (RSCM). Animated by a vision to overcome drug-based therapies and their underlying political economies, RSCM pursues a form of regenerative health that is strikingly at odds with pharmaceutical regimes of drug research, regulation and therapy. To offer a theoretical account of these competing forms of health, the paper provides an analysis of the regimes of values that underpin pharmaceutical and regenerative health respectively. This analysis is done alongside three dimensions: the interlinkage between knowledge, technology and economic value creation; its relation to normative values and ethics; and conceptions and valuations of the biomedical subject and his/her body in biomedical research, intervention and innovation. Contrasting these two diverging regimes of health and value suggests that in RSCM the pharmaceutical logic of accumulating surplus health is not entirely dismissed but re-articulated in a regime based on the (re-)generation of regenerative biovalue through the extraction and ex vivo accumulation of surplus vitality. Finally, the article discusses post-pharmaceutical health as a sensitizing concept that offers new research avenues into emergent forms of health, value, and subjectivity beyond RSCM.
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dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
dc.relation	http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=868
dc.rights	Sociologias
dc.source	Sociologias (Brasil) Num.50 Vol.21
dc.subject	Sociología
dc.subject	Bioeconomy
dc.subject	Biovalue
dc.subject	Health regimes
dc.subject	Pharmaceuticals
dc.subject	Regenerative stem cell medicine
dc.subject	Regulatory pharmaceuticalization
dc.title	Embodied values: post-pharmaceutical health and the accumulation of surplus vitality in regenerative stem cell medicine
dc.type	artículo científico