Technology legitimacy and the legitimacy of technology: The case of chronic kidney disease therapies

In this paper we explore how the institutional environment in which technologies are embedded serves to select certain technological options while marginalizing others. To do this, we trace the activities occurring among and between sponsors and the legitimacy assemblage – that is, the distributed set of actors, materials and methodologies that collectively confer legitimacy to a technology. Specifically, we employ an analytic narrative of the...