Governing through expertise: the politics of bioethics

By:

Littoz-Monnet, Annabelle

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge University Press New York 2020Description: xi, 159 pISBN:

9781108843928

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DDC classification:

174 LIT

Summary: Littoz-Monnet provides a fresh analysis of the enmeshment of expert knowledge with politics in global governance, through a unique investigation of bioethical expertise, an intriguing form of 'expert knowledge' which claims authority in the ethical analysis of issues that arise in relation to biomedicine, the life sciences and new fields of technological innovation. She makes the case that the mobilisation of ethics experts does not always arise from a motivation to rationalise governance. Instead, mobilising ethics experts - who are endowed with a unique double-edged authority, both 'democratic' and 'epistemic' - can help policy-makers manoeuvre policy conflicts on scientific and technological innovations and make their pro-science and innovation agendas possible. Bioethical expertise is indeed shaped in a political and iterative space between experts and those who do policy. The book reveals the mechanisms through which certain global governance narratives, as well as the types of expertise they rely on, remain stable even when they are contested. Proposes a new view of expertise Proposes a critical view of the notion of bioethics Sheds light on the mechanisms which enable certain governance narratives to emerge and stabilize

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Governing Science and Technology
2. Re-Conceptualizing the Enmeshment of Knowledge and Politics
3. The Fabric of Ethics Experts
4. Researching Embryonic Stem Cells
5. Manipulating Particles on a Small Scale
6. Tracking People's Behaviour
7. Conclusions: The Politics of Expertise.

Littoz-Monnet provides a fresh analysis of the enmeshment of expert knowledge with politics in global governance, through a unique investigation of bioethical expertise, an intriguing form of 'expert knowledge' which claims authority in the ethical analysis of issues that arise in relation to biomedicine, the life sciences and new fields of technological innovation. She makes the case that the mobilisation of ethics experts does not always arise from a motivation to rationalise governance. Instead, mobilising ethics experts - who are endowed with a unique double-edged authority, both 'democratic' and 'epistemic' - can help policy-makers manoeuvre policy conflicts on scientific and technological innovations and make their pro-science and innovation agendas possible. Bioethical expertise is indeed shaped in a political and iterative space between experts and those who do policy. The book reveals the mechanisms through which certain global governance narratives, as well as the types of expertise they rely on, remain stable even when they are contested.

Proposes a new view of expertise
Proposes a critical view of the notion of bioethics
Sheds light on the mechanisms which enable certain governance narratives to emerge and stabilize

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