Alex Faulkner
Emeritus Professor

Selected publications

Article

Bicudo, Edison, Morrison, Michael, Li, Phoebe, Faulkner, Alex, Mourby, Miranda and Kaye, Jane (2022) Patent power in biomedical innovation: technology governance in biomodifying technologies. The Journal of World Intellectual Property. pp. 1-22. ISSN 1422-2213

Mourby, Miranda, Morrison, Michael, Li, Phoebe, Faulkner, Alex, Bicudo, Edison, Bell, Jessica and Kaye, Jane (2022) Biomodifying the ‘Natural’: from adaptive regulation to adaptive societal governance. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 9 (1). ISSN 2053-9711

Bicudo, Edison, Faulkner, Alex and Li, Phoebe (2021) Sociotechnical alignment in biomedicine: the 3D bioprinting market beyond technology convergence. Technology in Society, 66. a101668 1-12. ISSN 0160-791X

Faulkner, Alex, Bloor, Kate and Hale, Vahsti (2021) Definitely maybe: new governance of uncertainty and risk in patient group involvement with UK guidance on testing for Lyme disease. Science, Technology and Society, 26 (1). pp. 116-134. ISSN 0971-7218

Bicudo, Edison, Faulkner, Alex and Li, Phoebe (2021) Digital readiness in 3D bioprinting: software, governance and hospitals’ proto-clinical interfaces. Regenerative Medicine, 16 (3). ISSN 1746-0751

Bicudo, Edison, Faulkner, Alex and Li, Phoebe (2020) Software, risks, and liabilities: ongoing and emergent issues in 3D bioprinting. Journal of Risk Research. pp. 1-15. ISSN 1366-9877

Bicudo, Edison, Faulkner, Alex and Li, Phoebe (2020) Patents and the experimental space: social, legal, and geographical dimensions of 3D bioprinting. International Review of Law, Computers & Technology. pp. 1-22. ISSN 1360-0869

Duggal, Sandhya and Faulkner, Alex (2020) Promissory and protective imaginaries of regenerative medicine: expectations work and scenario maintenance of disease research charities in the United Kingdom. Public Understanding of Science, 29 (4). pp. 392-407. ISSN 0963-6625

Coveney, Catherine, Faulkner, Alex, Gabe, Jonathan and McNamee, Michael (2020) Beyond the orthodox/CAM dichotomy: exploring therapeutic decision making, reasoning and practice in the therapeutic landscapes of elite sports medicine. Social Science & Medicine, 251. a112905. ISSN 0277-9536

Bloor, Kate, Hale, Vahsti and Faulkner, Alex (2020) Knowledge and uncertainty in Lyme disease detection: an evidence-based activism research study in the UK. Critical Public Health. pp. 1-13. ISSN 0958-1596

Li, Phoebe, Faulkner, Alex and Medcalf, Nicholas (2020) 3D bioprinting in a 2D regulatory landscape: gaps, uncertainties, and problems. Law, Innovation and Technology, 12 (1). pp. 1-29. ISSN 1757-9961

McNamee, M J, Coveney, C M, Faulkner, A and Gabe, J (2018) Ethics, evidence based sports medicine, and the use of platelet rich plasma in the English Premier League. Health Care Analysis, 26 (4). pp. 344-361. ISSN 1065-3058

Faulkner, Alex and Mahalatchimy, Aurelie (2018) The politics of valuation and payment for regenerative medicine products in the UK. New Genetics and Society, 37 (3). pp. 227-247. ISSN 1463-6778

Mahalatchimy, Aurelie and Faulkner, Alex (2017) The emerging landscape of reimbursement of regenerative medicine products in the UK: publications, policies and politics. Regenerative Medicine, 12 (6). pp. 611-622. ISSN 1746-0751

Li, Phoebe and Faulkner, Alex (2017) 3D bioprinting regulations: a UK/EU perspective. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 8 (2). pp. 441-447. ISSN 1867-299X

Faulkner, Alex and Poort, Lonneke (2017) Stretching and challenging the boundaries of law: varieties of knowledge in biotechnologies regulation. Minerva, 55 (2). pp. 209-228. ISSN 0026-4695

Faulkner, Alex, McNamee, Michael, Coveney, Catherine and Gabe, Jonathan (2017) Where biomedicalisation and magic meet: therapeutic innovations of elite sports injury in British professional football and cycling. Social Science and Medicine, 178. pp. 136-143. ISSN 0277-9536

Faulkner, Alex (2017) Special treatment? Flexibilities in the politics of regenerative medicine’s gatekeeping regimes in the UK. Science as Culture. ISSN 0950-5431

Gardner, John, Higham, Ruchi, Faulkner, Alex and Webster, Andrew (2017) Promissory identities: sociotechnical representations & innovation in regenerative medicine. Social Science and Medicine, 174. pp. 70-78. ISSN 0277-9536

Faulkner, Alex (2016) Opening the gateways to market and adoption of regenerative medicine? The UK case in context. Regenerative Medicine, 11 (3). pp. 321-330. ISSN 1746-0751

Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret, Chekar, Choon Key, Faulkner, Alex, Heitmeyer, Carolyn, Marouda, Marina, Rosemann, Achim, Chaisinthop, Nattaka, Chang, Hung-Chieh, Ely, Adrian, Kato, Masae, Patra, Prasanna K, Su, Yeyang, Sui, Suli, Suzuki, Wakana and Zhang, Xinqing (2016) Comparing national home-keeping and the regulation of translational stem cell applications: an international perspective. Social Science and Medicine, 153. pp. 240-249. ISSN 0277-9536

Gardner, John, Faulkner, Alex, Mahalatchimy, Aurelie and Webster, Andrew (2015) Are there specific translational challenges in regenerative medicine? Lessons from other fields. Regenerative Medicine, 10 (7). pp. 885-895. ISSN 1746-0751

Faulkner, Alex (2015) Usership of regenerative therapies: age, ageing and anti-ageing in the global science and technology of knee cartilage repair. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 93. pp. 44-53. ISSN 0040-1625

Ulucanlar, S, Faulkner, A, Peirce, S and Elwyn, G (2013) Technology identity: the role of sociotechnical representations in the adoption of medical devices. Social Science and Medicine, 98. pp. 95-105. ISSN 0277-9536

Faulkner, Alex (2012) Commensuration and proliferation: similarity and divergence in law’s shaping of medical technology. Law, Innovation and Technology, 4 (2). pp. 165-184. ISSN 1757-9961

Faulkner, Alex (2012) Law's performativities: shaping the emergence of regenerative medicine though European Union legislation. Social Studies of Science, 42 (5). pp. 754-775. ISSN 0306-3127

Faulkner, Alex (2012) Resisting the screening imperative: patienthood, populations and politics in prostate cancer detection technologies for the UK. Sociology of Health and Illness, 34 (2). pp. 221-233. ISSN 1467-9566

Book

Faulkner, Alex (2009) Medical technology into healthcare and society: a sociology of devices, innovation and governance. Health, Technology & Society . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9780230001718

Book Section

Faulkner, Alex (2017) Blood informatics: negotiating the regulation and usership of personal devices for medical care and recreational self-monitoring. In: Quantified Lives and Vital Data: Exploring health and technology through personal medical devices. Health, Technology and Society . Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 203-228. ISBN 9781349952359

Reports and working papers

Li, Phoebe, Faulkner, Alex, Griffin, James and Medcalf, Nick (2017) Mass customisation governance: regulation, liability, and intellectual property of re-distributed manufacturing in 3D bioprinting. Project Report. IfM, Cambridge.