Brigida Alexandra Amaral Mendes Riso
@medicina.ulisboa.pt
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa
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Brígida Riso
MDPI AG
Biobanks have been established from the beginning of the millennium as relevant infrastructures to support biomedical research. These repositories have also transformed the paradigm of collecting and storing samples and associated clinical data, moving these practices from the healthcare services and research laboratories to dedicated services. In Portugal, the establishment of biobanks is happening in the absence of a specific legal framework, turning it difficult to fully understand the scope of their action. This ethnographic research explored how establishing a biobank challenges the dynamics between healthcare and biomedical research. The ethnography intended to follow the path of biological samples from the hospital, where they were collected, to the biobank in a research institute, where they were stored. Findings suggest that although the nature of the biobank’s technical work seemed to inscribe it as a research-oriented setting, the biobank’s daily work was performed through symbolic action in the logic of care. Biobank staff constantly recalled the human nature of the samples, and they built complex illness narratives of each sample, promoting a connection with the absent donor. These practices were crucial to constructing the biobank as a health place, one that was designed to be life-saving in the near future.
Oliver Feeney, Pascal Borry, Heike Felzmann, Lucia Galvagni, Ari Haukkala, Michele Loi, Salvör Nordal, Vojin Rakic, Brígida Riso, Sigrid Sterckx,et al.
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Pascal Borry, Heidi Beate Bentzen, Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne, Martina C. Cornel, Heidi Carmen Howard, Oliver Feeney, Leigh Jackson, Deborah Mascalzoni, Álvaro Mendes, Borut Peterlin,et al.
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Brígida Riso, Aaro Tupasela, Danya F. Vears, Heike Felzmann, Julian Cockbain, Michele Loi, Nana C. H. Kongsholm, Silvia Zullo, and Vojin Rakic
Springer Science and Business Media LLC