Abstract
Aim: To position medical 3D printing practices, risk and governance as more complex than mere manufacturing so to consider the contextual network-enabled dilemmas from remediating and remanufacturing the body in professional clinical and pedagogical practice; to suggest the current regulatory logics of risk and innovation do not sufficiently acknowledge shifts to network-enabled practitioner collaborations, exemplified here via ‘chilling effects’ of closed intellectual property regimes. Methods & framework: Anonymous practitioner workshop (n:12), socio-legal critique. Results: Communicated need to acknowledge practices of medical 3D printing under socio-legal constraints. Conclusion: Consider 3D printing as communication models to sustain medical research-practice in a digital–physical age, including consideration of novel governance mechanisms such as practitioner licensing and building a medical commons with network-friendly intellectual property regime.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 161-169 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | 3D Printing in Medicine |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2019 |
Keywords
- 3d printing
- economies
- digital design
- digital disruption
- digital medicine
- networked medicine