Protecting the living

Managerialism and professional turf wars in risk regulatory death investigations

Bibliographic Data

ID12899485
AuthorsMichael Leslie (0000-0001-5759-7993, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume9
Issue4
Pages339-351
Publication date2013-01-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRegulation & Governance (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1748-5983 • E-ISSN: 1748-5991
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/rego.12014
OpenAlexW2157023964
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited25

This paper demonstrates how general trends in the management of public institutions, and a specific turf war between the doctors and lawyers in O ntario, C anada, have combined to shape an important risk regulatory decisionmaking process: the coroner's inquest. Drawing on ethnographic evidence, I show how the priorities of managerialism, and the collateral effects of physician coroners battling with lawyers, have reduced the number of public inquests convened in O ntario by 80 per cent over a 20‐year period. Where many public safety decisions affecting the province's legal, policy, and physical environments were once made at public inquests, they appear now more likely to be made in private. The paper examines the implications of reduced public participation in the analysis of, and response to, death

Coroner · Environmental health · Inquest · Managerialism · Poison control · Political science · Public relations · Suicide prevention · Healthcare Policy and Management · Law · Medicine · Public Administration · Regulation and Compliance Studies

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