ECHOES

Epistemic communities in healthcare
and professional expertise

/ PROJECT

The ECHOES project (Epistemic Communities in Healthcare and prOfessional ExpertiSe) analyzes the production and circulation of knowledge within epistemic communities in the healthcare sector, focusing on the networks of so-called early home-care practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Through a sociological approach, the study investigates the communicative dynamics, professional practices, and institutional interactions of these networks of doctors who, in different forms and ways, mobilized to respond to the earliest and most dramatic phases of the pandemic.
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/ RESEARCH GROUP

Roberto
Lusardi

Associate Professor, Università degli Studi di Bergamo Sociology of Health and Medicine Science & Technology Studies

Micol
Bronzini

Associate Professor, Università Politecnica delle Marche Sociology of Health and Medicine, of Organizations and of Professions

Enrico Maria
Piras

Senior Researcher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Sociology of Health and Medicine Science & Technology Studies

Flavia
Atzori

Post-doc Researcher, University of Bologna, Sociology of Health and Medicine

Benedetta
Polini

Research Assistant, University of Urbino, Sociology

Rosario
Aprile

Post-doc Researcher, Università degli Studi di Bergamo Sociology

/ PUBLICATIONS

  • In modern healthcare, clinicians increasingly use instant messaging apps such as WhatsApp® to exchange information when institutional systems […]
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  • Durante le prime e più aggressive ondate della pandemia di Covid-19, il governo italiano istituisce le Unità […]
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  • Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) has been celebrated as a paradigm shift in clinical practice, yet it has also […]
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  • The Covid-19 pandemic offers an unprecedented opportunity to investigate knowledge-making practices and associated epistemic conflicts. In addition […]
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  • The COVID-19 pandemic required healthcare systems to adapt in order to confront an unknown pathogen [...]
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  • This paper is focused on the production and circulation of medical knowledge ‘from below’ in the early […]
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/ CONTATTI

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