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Jonah Campbell

Jonah CampbellResearch Associate, Supervisor: Alberto Cambrosio

| jonah.campbell [at] mcgill.ca | 3647 Peel, 207 | 

Jonah Campbell is a Research Associate with the Department of Social Studies of Medicine, whose work has spanned projects in the history of state-based and international chronic disease programming, Global Health and the Social Determinants of Health; the regulatory and evidentiary politics of opioids in the United States; Cold War psychiatry; psychiatric and gynecological approaches to female sexual frigidity; and the sociology of genomic oncology. Current work focuses on the intersection of precision medicine, Big Data and the “new” clinical trial designs in cancer.

Research Interests:

Oncology, biomedicine, clinical trials, “Big Data” and personalized medicine, historical epistemology, Science and Technology Studies.

Selected Publications:

With Alberto Cambrosio, Étienne Vignola-Gagné, Peter Keating, Bertrand Jordan, and Pascale Bourret, ““Overcoming the Bottleneck”: Knowledge Architectures for Genomic Data Interpretation in the Oncology Domain” (under review)

With Alberto Cambrosio, Peter Keating, and Pascale Bourret, “Multi-Polar Scripts: Techno-Regulatory Environments and the Rise of Precision Oncology Diagnostic Tests” Social Science and Medicine (in press, online May 2019)

With Nicholas King, ““Unsettling Circularity”: Clinical Trial Enrichment and the Evidentiary Politics of Chronic Pain.” Biosocieties. Vol. 12, Issue 2, June 2017\

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