Sergio Sismondo
Professor | Cross-Appointed
PhD (Cornell University)
Philosophy | Sociology
Queen's University
Research Interests
Science and Technology Studies; political economies of pharmaceutical knowledge and more broadly the political economy of knowledge
Sergio Sismondo does research in Science and Technology Studies at intersections of philosophy and sociology of science. Recently, he has been studying the nature and distribution of pharmaceutical research, seeing this as a project in the political economy of knowledge. He is at the beginning of a project on “epistemic corruption,” exploring contestation around knowledge practices. Earlier and continuing work has been connected to questions about realism, constructivism, and deflationism. Sismondo is currently editor of the journal Social Studies of Science, one of the flagship journals in Science and Technology Studies.
Selected Publications
Ghost-Managed Medicine: Big Pharma’s Invisible Hands (Mattering, 2018, translated into Chinese, 2019)
An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, 2nd ed (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, 1st ed Blackwell 2004, multiply translated)
The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader (with Jeremy Greene) (Wiley, 2015)
Special issue on Pharmaceutical Research and Marketing, Social Studies of Science 34 no. 2, 2004.
Special issue on Modeling and Simulation, Science in Context 12, no.2, 1999.
Plus more than 50 journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries.
'Epistemic Corruption'