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Knowing Times: Temporalities of Evidence for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (May 2021)

Morten Sager (Author)
Zuiderent-Jerak, Teun (Author)

Science, Technology, and Human Values
Volume: 46
Issue: 3
Pages: 628-654
Publication date: May 2021
Language: English

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243920941591

DOI: 10.1177/0162243920941591

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Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been studied as a rich and diverse set of epistemic and infrastructural practices that relate imperfect medical knowledges to complex clinical practices. We examine instances of medical decision-making where medical professionals relate recommendations from clinical practice guidelines to individual patient characteristics when deciding to prescribe implantable cardioverter defibrillators to treat heart failure. When connecting evidence-based recommendations to decisions about individual patients, we find that clinical deliberations invoke different times, such as linear, chronological time, and biological aging, as well as different futures, such as individual future risks and the future sustainability of health systems. Such different “temporalities of evidence” are integral parts of clinicians’ considerations concerning economy, suffering, risks, and hopes in making decisions on individual patients. In line with calls to anchor science and technology studies scholarship studying EBM in the (clinical) concerns that matter most to patients and health care providers, we argue that the social study of EBM needs to attend to such temporalities to understand how evidence is weighed, which outcomes are considered important, and hence which clinical action is proposed. However, since different ways of “doing time” lead to different appreciations of the clinical outcomes, the notion of clinical “anchoring” becomes rather elusive.

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