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Devicing future populations: Problematizing the relationship between quantity and quality of life (2019)
Journal Article
Moreira, T. (2019). Devicing future populations: Problematizing the relationship between quantity and quality of life. Social Studies of Science, 49(1), 118-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312719829841

Taking as point of departure the claim that, in late modern societies, there has been shift from a focus on producing measures of life and death towards metrics of health and disability, this paper investigates how, through what means and processes w... Read More about Devicing future populations: Problematizing the relationship between quantity and quality of life.

Towards a Pragmatics of Health (2018)
Book Chapter
Moreira, T. (2018). Towards a Pragmatics of Health. In E. Garnett, J. Reynolds, & S. Milton (Eds.), Ethnographies and Health: Reflections on Empirical and Methodological Entanglements (253-268). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89396-9_15

In this paper, I propose that it is necessary to complement ethnographic studies of everyday health practices with investigations of the—equally ordinary, but often disregarded—production and use of formalised health measurements and valuations. I ex... Read More about Towards a Pragmatics of Health.

De-standardising ageing? Shifting regimes of age measurement (2015)
Journal Article
Moreira, T. (2016). De-standardising ageing? Shifting regimes of age measurement. Ageing & Society, 36(07), 1407-1433. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x15000458

Departing from the proposition that, in the sociological debate about whether there has been a shift towards a de-standardised lifecourse in advanced economies, little attention has been devoted to the infrastructural arrangements that would support... Read More about De-standardising ageing? Shifting regimes of age measurement.

Unsettling Standards: the biological age controversy (2015)
Journal Article
Moreira, T. (2015). Unsettling Standards: the biological age controversy. The Sociological Quarterly, 56(1), 18-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/tsq.12079

One key debate within the sociology of aging and the life course over the past decade has been focused on understanding the extent to which there has been a shift from a reliance on chronological age to segment the life course and ascertain age-speci... Read More about Unsettling Standards: the biological age controversy.

Understanding the role of patient organizations in health technology assessment. (2014)
Journal Article
Moreira, T. (2015). Understanding the role of patient organizations in health technology assessment. Health Expectations, 18(6), 3349-3357. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12325

Background The involvement of patient representatives in health technology assessment is increasingly seen by policy makers and researchers as key for the deployment of patient-centred health care, but there is uncertainty and a lack of theoretical u... Read More about Understanding the role of patient organizations in health technology assessment..

Unmaking old age: Political and cognitive formats of active ageing (2014)
Journal Article
Lassen, A., & Moreira, T. (2014). Unmaking old age: Political and cognitive formats of active ageing. Journal of Aging Studies, 30, 33-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2014.03.004

Active ageing is a policy tool that dominates the way the ageing society has been constituted during the last decades. The authors argue that active ageing is an attempt at unmaking the concept of old age, by engaging in the plasticity of ageing in v... Read More about Unmaking old age: Political and cognitive formats of active ageing.

Assembling Dementia Care: Patient organisations and social research (2014)
Journal Article
Moreira, T., O'Donovan, O., & Howlett, E. (2014). Assembling Dementia Care: Patient organisations and social research. BioSocieties, 9(2), 173-193. https://doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2014.6

In this article, we take the concept of evidence-based activism as a point of departure to understand how Alzheimer’s disease (AD) associations have mobilised knowledge to re-articulate their role in the public sphere. We are specifically interested... Read More about Assembling Dementia Care: Patient organisations and social research.

Evidence-based activism: Patients' organisations, users' and activist's groups in knowledge (2014)
Journal Article
Rabeharisoa, V., Moreira, T., & Akrich, M. (2014). Evidence-based activism: Patients' organisations, users' and activist's groups in knowledge. BioSocieties, 9(2), 111-128. https://doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2014.2

This article proposes the notion of ‘evidence-based activism’ to capture patients’ and health activists’ groups’ focus on knowledge production and knowledge mobilisation in the governance of health issues. It introduces empirical data and analysis on... Read More about Evidence-based activism: Patients' organisations, users' and activist's groups in knowledge.

Tracking Transformations in Health Movement Organisations: Alzheimer's Disease Organisations and their Changing ‘Cause Regimes’ (2013)
Journal Article
O'Donovan, O., Moreira, T., & Howlett, E. (2013). Tracking Transformations in Health Movement Organisations: Alzheimer's Disease Organisations and their Changing ‘Cause Regimes’. Social Movement Studies, 12(3), 316-334. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2013.777330

In this paper, we aim to contribute to the elaboration of a framework for the systematic periodisation of health social movement organisations (HSMOs). Drawing on historical and contemporaneous data on two organisations that identify as Alzheimer's d... Read More about Tracking Transformations in Health Movement Organisations: Alzheimer's Disease Organisations and their Changing ‘Cause Regimes’.

Questions of Life and Death: A Genealogy (2012)
Book Chapter
Moreira, T., & Palladino, P. (2012). Questions of Life and Death: A Genealogy. In B. S. Turner (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Body Studies (362-374). Routledge

Population laboratories’ or ‘laboratory populations’? Making sense of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, 1965–1987 (2011)
Journal Article
Moreira, T., & Palladino, P. (2011). Population laboratories’ or ‘laboratory populations’? Making sense of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, 1965–1987. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 42(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.05.001

Health care rationing in an age of uncertainty: a conceptual model (2011)
Journal Article
Moreira, T. (2011). Health care rationing in an age of uncertainty: a conceptual model. Social Science & Medicine, 72(8), 1333-1341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.02.026

Explicit health care rationing or priority-setting is the use of institutional procedures for the systematic allocation of resources within health care systems. With the establishment of priority setting systems in various countries in the past two d... Read More about Health care rationing in an age of uncertainty: a conceptual model.

Actor-network theory (2010)
Book Chapter
Moreira, T. (2010). Actor-network theory. In S. Priest (Ed.), Encyclopedia of science and technology communication. SAGE Publications