Jill A. Fisher is the author of a new article in Social Science & Medicine.
Fisher analyzes findings from her ethnographic research, including semi-structured interviews. Based on her findings, Fisher describes parents’ and children’s experiences in food allergy clinical trials.
Fisher argues that “affluent parents willingly accept a form of biomedicalization of their children that involves exceptional, and sometimes traumatic, clinical trial experiences as they pursue the elusive normal life and future they envision for them.”
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