Co-production of technology and socio-political orders: Prenatal testing in Belgium and Argentina

This paper discusses how two theoretical frameworks from the STS field (co-production and critical realism) can help understand the dynamics of policy development with emerging technologies. The point of departure of this paper is the comparison of the inscription of two emerging technologies in public health sectors. The NIPT (non invasive prenatal testing) for pregnant women very recently developed in many countries, for the detection of foetus anomalities based of the analysis of the mother’s blood (Fallon 2017). At the same time new methods for save medicated abortion are made availbale th... Mehr ...