Heather Walmsley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3577290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Walmsley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Walmsley |
| SIGNATURE | WALMSLEY H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8821-5035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reproductive tourism
This paper employs poetic inquiry as a form of interpretive and aesthetic inquiry into the meaning and experience of reproductive tourism. The context is an ethnographic study of the fertility services industry in Cancun. Drawing upon interviews with the owner of a medical tourism company and a doctor who runs a large fertility clinic, we adopt varied strategies of poetic inquiry as a means of listening deeply to the stories of participants. In p…
Stock options, tax credits or employment contracts please! The value of deliberative public disagreement about human tissue donation
Biobanking, public consultation, and the discursive logics of deliberation
Genomics-related “deliberative” public consultations are all the rage. Drawing from theories of deliberative democracy, run by social scientists, governments and non-profit organizations globally, these events can produce valuable insights and governance solutions. There is a danger, however, of “deliberation” being viewed by its new practitioners as a homogenous “tool” due to a marked lack of analysis of the discursive processes at play. This pa…
Mad scientists bend the frame of biobank governance in British Columbia
The tools and rhetoric of deliberative democracy are increasingly popular with governments, organizations, and researchers working to enhance ‘public engagement with science’. Deliberative fora such as citizen juries have also been heavily critiqued by social and political scientists – for positively and narrowly framing contentious new technologies to secure public support, and for privileging consensus over ‘difference’. This paper takes such c…
Mad scientists bend the frame of biobank governance in British Columbia
The tools and rhetoric of deliberative democracy are increasingly popular with governments, organizations, and researchers working to enhance ‘public engagement with science’. Deliberative fora such as citizen juries have also been heavily critiqued by social and political scientists – for positively and narrowly framing contentious new technologies to secure public support, and for privileging consensus over ‘difference’. This paper takes such c…
Biobanking, public consultation, and the discursive logics of deliberation
Genomics-related “deliberative” public consultations are all the rage. Drawing from theories of deliberative democracy, run by social scientists, governments and non-profit organizations globally, these events can produce valuable insights and governance solutions. There is a danger, however, of “deliberation” being viewed by its new practitioners as a homogenous “tool” due to a marked lack of analysis of the discursive processes at play. This pa…
Stock options, tax credits or employment contracts please! The value of deliberative public disagreement about human tissue donation
Reproductive tourism
This paper employs poetic inquiry as a form of interpretive and aesthetic inquiry into the meaning and experience of reproductive tourism. The context is an ethnographic study of the fertility services industry in Cancun. Drawing upon interviews with the owner of a medical tourism company and a doctor who runs a large fertility clinic, we adopt varied strategies of poetic inquiry as a means of listening deeply to the stories of participants. In p…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Deliberation (3 works) · Ethics in Clinical Research (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Deliberative democracy (2 works) · Democracy (2 works)