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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: Governing Science and Technology
- 2 Re-conceptualising the Enmeshment of Knowledge and Politics
- 3 The Fabric of Ethics Experts: A Genealogy of (Bio)Ethical Expertise
- 4 Researching Embryonic Stem Cells: Bypassing Conflict
- 5 Manipulating Particles on a Small Scale: Checking the Rise of Conflict
- 6 Tracking People’s Behaviour: From Conflict Containment to Conflict Manoeuvring
- 7 Conclusion
- Annex European Group of Ethics Experts 1991–2020
- Bibliography
- Index