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Author Littoz-Monnet, Annabelle, 1977- author

Title Governing through expertise : the politics of bioethics / Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 161 pages)
Contents Chapter 1. Introduction: Governing Science and Technology -- Chapter 2. Conceptualizing the Enmeshment of Knowledge and Politics -- Chapter 3. The Fabric of Ethics Experts -- Chapter 4. Researching Embryonic Stem Cells -- Chapter 5. Manipulating Particles on a Small Scale -- Chapter 6. Tracking People's Behaviour -- Chapter 7. Conclusions: The Politics of Expertise -- Annex 1: List of experts of the European Group of Ethics 1991 -- to date
Summary "The book asks how the notion of ethics expertise has emerged, what functions its mobilisation plays in the governance of scientific and technological innovation and how such expertise is produced. It reveals that bioethics expertise is fundamentally political in three distinct but interrelated ways. First, its mobilisation in policy does not always arise from a motivation to rationalise governance. Mobilising experts can be a way of manoeuvring through political conflicts, because the mobilisation of expertise can hide the political component of public discussions, insulate policy-making and facilitate the fabric of policy compromises. Second, bioethical expertise and policy do not belong to impervious spheres; experts can be mobilised to such avail because iterations between knowledge and politics take place through tangible mechanisms, so that bioethical expertise ultimately makes policy possible, rather than provide it with oversight. Third, through a close-up on bioethics expertise, the book reveals that the delineation of what counts as expert knowledge fluctuates, reflecting specific political and social circumstances and the agendas which actors unfold in given contexts"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 06, 2020)
Subject Bioethics -- Government policy
Expertise -- Political aspects
Ethics committees.
Science and state.
Specialists.
Ethics Committees
Ethics committees
Expertise -- Political aspects
Science and state
Specialists
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020018988
ISBN 9781108921060
110892106X
1108922864
9781108922869