ANTHCED is an ethnographic research within a broad field that concerns the development of detection technologies through to their clinical use and social effects in the UK.
What?
I trace the practices and experiences of ‘biomedical innovation’ in cancer detection that are articulated by scientists, engineers, clinicians, patients, research participants and their support networks.
How?
The study employs an anthropological method of analysis, which is broadly defined as an inductive and comparative exercise through which participants’ practices, perceptions and worldviews are understood in their own terms.
Why?
The systematic collection of these experiences is then put into a wider context, extracting meaning, relevance, and societal impact. Observing the real-life impact of early cancer detection studies is invaluable to better understand the social acceptability of early detection technologies.
About the researcher
Ignacia Arteaga, PhD (UCL 2018) is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. Previously, she was a Research Rellow in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Research Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge UK. [read more…]
Summary of the study
Here I explain the purpose of the study and the methodological approach I take, focussing on the technologies being developed and how they are integrated into clinical and personal domains [read more…]
REPRESENT: A new collaboration
Building on recent toolkits, we aim to design and agree on a roadmap to improve participant representation in early detection studies in a mutually beneficial way [read more…]
The principal investigator
Dr Ignacia Arteaga is a research fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
Get in touch
Department of Social Anthropology. Free School Lane, Cambridge, UK CB2 3RF