Medical knowledge is always in motion. It moves from the lab to the office, from a press release to a patient, from an academic journal to a civil servant's desk and then on to a policymaker. These movements matter: value judgements on the validity of certain forms of knowledge determine the direction of clinical research, and policy decisions are taken in relation to existing knowledge. The complexity of medical information and its wider effects is the focus of Movement of knowledge. The authors address the pervasive influence of knowledge in medical and public health settings and scrutinize a range of methodological and theoretical tools to study knowledge. They take a multidisciplinary approach to the medical humanities, presenting both contemporary and historical perspectives in order to explore the borderlands between expertise and common knowledge. Medical knowledge is deconstructed, reconstructed, and transformed as it moves between patients, health providers, and society at large. The acceptance or rejection of treatment protocols based on medical 'facts' has a fundamental impact on us all.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: Movement of knowledge: Introducing medical humanities perspectives on medicine, science, and experience—Kristofer Hansson & Rachel Irwin
• I. Medical Knowledge and the Political
  • 1. Prenatal diagnosis: The co-production of knowledge and values in medical research and public debate—Anna Tunlid
  • 2. The objects of global health policy: Turning knowledge into evidence at the World Health Organization—Rachel Irwin
• II. Circulating and Sharing Medical Knowledge
  • 3. Sharing knowledge: Neuroscience and the circulation of medical knowledge—Åsa Alftberg
  • 4. Press releases as medical knowledge: Making news and identification in medical research communication—Karolina Lindh
• III. Co-Creation of Medical Knowledge
  • 5. The ethical tool of informed consent: How mutual trust is co-produced through entanglements and disentanglements of the body—Markus Idvall
  • 6. The co-creation of situated knowledge: Facilitating the implementation of care models in hospital-based home care—Kristofer Hansson, Gabriella Nilsson & Irén Tiberg
• IV. Knowledge in Everyday Experience
  • 7. A number in circulation: HbA1c as standardized knowledge in diabetes care—Kristofer Hansson
  • 8. Knowledge worlds apart: Aesthetic experience as an epistemological boundary object—Max Liljefors
  • 9. Medicines in the grey market: A sociocultural analysis of individual agency—Rui Liu & Susanne Lundin
• List of abbreviations
• About the authors