ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presenting case studies offer implicit evidence of biomedical science. David J. Hess study on the case of advocacy for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) approaches to cancer is a good example of how counterpublics mobilize in opposition to pharmaceutical industries. Peter Conrad and Catherine Tan themselves refer, to the lack of evidence for alternative causal stories surrounding autism, such as a connection with Mumps, Measles, and Rubella (MMR) vaccines, which is championed by some patient advocates on internet platforms. It appears that the alternative food and complete streets movements have been much more visible and able to make Mercedes C. Lyson's and Stephen Zavestoski's respective claims than those advocating against the medicalization of obesity such as the Fat Acceptance Movement. Patient activism has had even more far-reaching meso-level effects on standard scientific cultures of knowledge production and related policies.
