User’s Innovation and Human Values in the Health Systems

Authors

  • Javier Echeverría Universidad del País Vasco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37467/gka-revmedica.v1.1294

Keywords:

user’s innovation, health systems, values

Abstract

Innovations in the health sector policies have been based on the R+D, since the pharmacological companies have invested heavily in the R+D+i. However, the innovation studies have shown in recent years that user innovation has as much or more importance than innovation based on the I+D, as it had been claimed many years ago by von Hippel and his followers (1998, 2005). The British NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and Arts) has published in 2011 a first study on innovation in health systems, which demonstrates that user’s innovation is also common in medicine. Based on this paradigm shift in the studies and policies of innovation, this article states that user’s innovation in the health systems aids to the advance of Medical Humanities, by promoting human and social values in medical practices.

Author Biography

Javier Echeverría, Universidad del País Vasco

Licenciado en Filosofía y en Matemáticas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Doctor en Filosofía por la misma universidad y Docteur d’Etat-ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines por la Université Paris-I. Ha sido profesor en la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Catedrático de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia en la Universidad del País Vasco y Profesor de Investigación en el Instituto de Filosofía del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Ha realizado estancias investigadoras prolongadas en París, Bruselas, Hannover, Urbana-Champaign y Reno. Desde febrero de 2008 es Profesor de Investigación en Ikerbasque (Fundación Vasca para la Ciencia), adscrito a la Universidad del País Vasco, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y de la Comunicación, Departamento de Sociología 2. Premios obtenidos: Anagrama de Ensayo (1995), Premio Euskadi de Investigación concedido por el Departamento de Educación, Universidades e Investigación del Gobierno Vasco (1997) y Premio Nacional de Ensayo concedido por el Ministerio de Cultura del Gobierno de España (2000). Últimos libros publicados: Los Señores del Aire: Telépolis y el Tercer Entorno (Barcelona, Destino, 1999), Ciencia y valores (Barcelona, Destino, 2002), La revolución tecnocientífica (Madrid, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003), Gobernar los riesgos (coeditor con José Luis Luján, Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva 2005), Ciencia del bien y el mal (Madrid, Herder, 2007), Epistemology and the Social (coeditado con Evandro Agazzi y Amparo Gómez, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2008), Knowledge Communities (coeditado con Andoni Alonso y Pedro Oiarzabal, University of Nevada, Reno, Center for Basque Studies, 2011), Leibniz (editor, Madrid, Gredos, 2011) y La luz de la luciérnaga: diálogos de innovación social (con Ander Gurrutxaga, Madrid, Plaza y Valdés, 2012).

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2012-03-05

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Echeverría, J. (2012). User’s Innovation and Human Values in the Health Systems. MEDICA REVIEW. International Medical Humanities Review Revista Internacional De Humanidades Médicas, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.37467/gka-revmedica.v1.1294

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2012)

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