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Straight outta the tropics: Pathological features of techno-scientific promises in neglected tropical disease research (2020)

Hugo Ferpozzi (Author)

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Volume: 3
Issue: 1
Pages: 205-226

URI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25729861.2020.1819078

DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2020.1819078

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Global south Trypanosomiasis, American (Chagas disease) Public health Medicine Tropical medicine Science and technology studies (STS) Disease and diseases 21st century Argentina

To gain support, scientiﬁc and technological promises need to be credible and address legitimate issues. This article explores this production of legitimacy and credibility that sustains technoscientiﬁc promises in neglected tropical disease research, a group of infectious diseases that aﬀect one billion individuals globally but remain largely excluded from the scope of the pharmaceutical industry. Speciﬁcally, I examine the dynamics of techno-scientiﬁc promises and expectations by focusing on Chagas disease research in Argentina, where neglected tropical diseases have been deemed legitimate objects of research eﬀorts but, at the same time, they depend on international connections with highproﬁle stakeholders to become credible. However, in a context marked by the rise of global health organizations and the recent engagement of the pharmaceutical industry, these kinds of commitments to research and development to ﬁght against neglected tropical diseases have resulted in three distinct “pathological features” or mismatches in their structures of expectations: the asymmetry between beneﬁciaries and scientiﬁc and technological decision-makers; the aﬀected populations’ inability to invest in the hopes and expectations embodied in potential healthcare technologies; and the performative eﬀects of techno-scientiﬁc promises, whereby leading solutions for neglected tropical diseases align with the rule of mainstream technoscience but hold only rhetorical continuity with formulations of the problem that originate in public health policies and discourse.

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