Mavis Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mavis Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mavis |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6701-3186 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Exploring the post-genomic world
Richard Lewontin proposed that the ability of a scientific field to create a narrative for public understanding garners it social relevance. This article applies Lewontin's conceptual framework of the functions of science (manipulatory and explanatory) to compare and explain the current differences in perceived societal relevance of genetics/genomics and proteomics. We provide three examples to illustrate the social relevance and strong cultural …
Where Now for Post-Normal Science
‘‘Post-normal science’’ (PNS) has received much attention in recent years, but like many iconic concepts, it has attracted differing conceptualizations, applications, and implications, ranging from being a ‘‘cure-all’’ for democratic deficit to the key to achieving more sustainable futures. This editorial article introduces a Special Issue that takes stock of research on PNS and critically explores how such research may develop. Through reviewing…
Institutional policy learning and public consultation
Rendre évident
Dans le champ des études sociales de la science, les régimes de régulation du risque appréhendés selon une approche technocratique sont critiqués pour leur attention insuffisante au « public », point de vue épistémologique socialement situé qui pourtant est davantage en mesure d'articuler les préoccupations du monde réel aux implications (collectives) du risque. Il semble qu'on ait répondu à cette critique dans plusieurs pays en modernisant les r…
Proceeding carefully
The Canadian Act Respecting Assisted Human Reproduction and Related Research (AHR Act), which came into effect in 2004, was the culmination of fifteen years of policy development in this often controversial field. Drawing from a series of semi-structured elite interviews and extensive documentary research, we examine the path to policy for the AHR Act. We identified several influences on the Act’s development, including: 1) feminist-informed acti…
Locating Scientific Citizenship
In this article, we explore the institutional negotiation of public engagement in matters of science and technology. We take the example of the Science in Society dialogue program initiated by the UK's Royal Society, but set this case within the wider experience of the public engagement activities of a range of charities, corporations, governmental departments, and scientific institutions. The novelty of the analysis lies in the linking of an acc…
Noisy and definitely not normal
Climate change, human genetics, and post-normality in the UK
Change in the policy community of human genetics
English The 1999 Review of biotechnology regulation required the policy community of human genetics to introduce a new and open approach to governance. In implementing this policy of self-reform, the policy community is obliged to reconcile conflicting political demands from the policy networks of civil society, science and industry as it seeks to establish and maintain the legitimacy of the new regulatory apparatus. Drawing on documentary and in…
Biobanks and bioethics
Taking Biobank UK as its centrepiece, this paper analyses the politics of legitimation accompanying the emergence of population-based genetic databases and the contribution of bioethics to the power play therein. First, it explores the nature of the legitimation problem experienced by biotechnology and considers the extent to which bioethics can be regarded as an epistemic community capable of responding to that problem through a regulatory contr…
The governance of human genetics
The collection of practices now commonly understood as 'biotechnology' poses a challenge to traditional mechanisms of regulating science and technology, just as it challenges traditional practices of science. The task of regulation is to reconcile the often conflicting political demands of protecting science, economy and the public interest. Public trust is the key measure of political success or failure. The purpose of this paper is to use polic…
Regulating human genetics
Human genetics poses new political issues for the governance systems of the EU and, in so doing, graphically illustrates the regulatory problematic of innovative health technologies (IHTs). Civil society, industry and the scientific community are registering new, and conflicting, political demands on the governance policy community of the EU. At the same time, the traditional reliance of that community on technocratic networks as the mainstay of …
Climate change, human genetics, and post-normality in the UK
Biobanks and bioethics
Taking Biobank UK as its centrepiece, this paper analyses the politics of legitimation accompanying the emergence of population-based genetic databases and the contribution of bioethics to the power play therein. First, it explores the nature of the legitimation problem experienced by biotechnology and considers the extent to which bioethics can be regarded as an epistemic community capable of responding to that problem through a regulatory contr…
Noisy and definitely not normal
Locating Scientific Citizenship
In this article, we explore the institutional negotiation of public engagement in matters of science and technology. We take the example of the Science in Society dialogue program initiated by the UK's Royal Society, but set this case within the wider experience of the public engagement activities of a range of charities, corporations, governmental departments, and scientific institutions. The novelty of the analysis lies in the linking of an acc…
Change in the policy community of human genetics
English The 1999 Review of biotechnology regulation required the policy community of human genetics to introduce a new and open approach to governance. In implementing this policy of self-reform, the policy community is obliged to reconcile conflicting political demands from the policy networks of civil society, science and industry as it seeks to establish and maintain the legitimacy of the new regulatory apparatus. Drawing on documentary and in…
Institutional policy learning and public consultation
Rendre évident
Dans le champ des études sociales de la science, les régimes de régulation du risque appréhendés selon une approche technocratique sont critiqués pour leur attention insuffisante au « public », point de vue épistémologique socialement situé qui pourtant est davantage en mesure d'articuler les préoccupations du monde réel aux implications (collectives) du risque. Il semble qu'on ait répondu à cette critique dans plusieurs pays en modernisant les r…
Regulating human genetics
Human genetics poses new political issues for the governance systems of the EU and, in so doing, graphically illustrates the regulatory problematic of innovative health technologies (IHTs). Civil society, industry and the scientific community are registering new, and conflicting, political demands on the governance policy community of the EU. At the same time, the traditional reliance of that community on technocratic networks as the mainstay of …
The governance of human genetics
The collection of practices now commonly understood as 'biotechnology' poses a challenge to traditional mechanisms of regulating science and technology, just as it challenges traditional practices of science. The task of regulation is to reconcile the often conflicting political demands of protecting science, economy and the public interest. Public trust is the key measure of political success or failure. The purpose of this paper is to use polic…
Biobanks and bioethics
Taking Biobank UK as its centrepiece, this paper analyses the politics of legitimation accompanying the emergence of population-based genetic databases and the contribution of bioethics to the power play therein. First, it explores the nature of the legitimation problem experienced by biotechnology and considers the extent to which bioethics can be regarded as an epistemic community capable of responding to that problem through a regulatory contr…
Change in the policy community of human genetics
English The 1999 Review of biotechnology regulation required the policy community of human genetics to introduce a new and open approach to governance. In implementing this policy of self-reform, the policy community is obliged to reconcile conflicting political demands from the policy networks of civil society, science and industry as it seeks to establish and maintain the legitimacy of the new regulatory apparatus. Drawing on documentary and in…
Climate change, human genetics, and post-normality in the UK
Noisy and definitely not normal
Proceeding carefully
The Canadian Act Respecting Assisted Human Reproduction and Related Research (AHR Act), which came into effect in 2004, was the culmination of fifteen years of policy development in this often controversial field. Drawing from a series of semi-structured elite interviews and extensive documentary research, we examine the path to policy for the AHR Act. We identified several influences on the Act’s development, including: 1) feminist-informed acti…
Locating Scientific Citizenship
In this article, we explore the institutional negotiation of public engagement in matters of science and technology. We take the example of the Science in Society dialogue program initiated by the UK's Royal Society, but set this case within the wider experience of the public engagement activities of a range of charities, corporations, governmental departments, and scientific institutions. The novelty of the analysis lies in the linking of an acc…
Where Now for Post-Normal Science
‘‘Post-normal science’’ (PNS) has received much attention in recent years, but like many iconic concepts, it has attracted differing conceptualizations, applications, and implications, ranging from being a ‘‘cure-all’’ for democratic deficit to the key to achieving more sustainable futures. This editorial article introduces a Special Issue that takes stock of research on PNS and critically explores how such research may develop. Through reviewing…
Institutional policy learning and public consultation
Rendre évident
Dans le champ des études sociales de la science, les régimes de régulation du risque appréhendés selon une approche technocratique sont critiqués pour leur attention insuffisante au « public », point de vue épistémologique socialement situé qui pourtant est davantage en mesure d'articuler les préoccupations du monde réel aux implications (collectives) du risque. Il semble qu'on ait répondu à cette critique dans plusieurs pays en modernisant les r…
Exploring the post-genomic world
Richard Lewontin proposed that the ability of a scientific field to create a narrative for public understanding garners it social relevance. This article applies Lewontin's conceptual framework of the functions of science (manipulatory and explanatory) to compare and explain the current differences in perceived societal relevance of genetics/genomics and proteomics. We provide three examples to illustrate the social relevance and strong cultural …
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