Calibrating Translational Cancer Research

Collaboration without Consensus in Interdisciplinary Laboratory Meetings

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5338345
AutoresKate M Centellas (0000-0002-1536-7660, University of Mississippi, autor de correspondencia), Regina Smardon (Methodist University), Regina E Smardon (Methodist University), Steve Fifield (0000-0001-9375-5901, The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Año2014
Volumen39
Número3
Páginas311-335
Fecha de publicación2014-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243913505650
OpenAlexW2063226902
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas33

Based on an original ethnographic study of a translational cancer research institute in the United States, we propose calibration as a process that makes interdisciplinary collaboration without consensus possible. Calibration refers to ongoing, day-to-day negotiation and alignment of personal identities, disciplinary commitments, and research group customs that occur during face-to-face group deliberations around everyday research concerns. Calibration provides a mechanism that explains how collaboration without consensus is possible. Crucially, it does not presuppose that interdisciplinary collaboration either indicates or causes the blurring or softening of disciplinary boundaries. We argue that at the microsociological level it may be disciplinary robustness, rather than synthesis, that contributes to interdisciplinary innovation

Biology · Discipline · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Negotiation · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Biomedical and Engineering Education · Engineering · Health and Medical Research Impacts · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration