Committee as Witness
Ethics Review as a Technology of Collective Attestation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4380261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel Douglas‐jone (0000-0001-9562-6572, IT University of Copenhagen, corresponding author), Rachel Douglas-Jones (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark [email protected]) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-71 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7674 • E-ISSN: 2047-7716 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/cja.2021.390105 |
| OpenAlex | W3139508605 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article explores the ethics review committee as a contemporary witness to the conduct of biomedical research. Ethics committee work is an internationally growing form of deliberation and decision making, a technology of anticipation that grants researchers access to experimental spaces, research funds and publication venues. Drawing on ethnographic work with a range of ethics committees across the Asia-Pacific region, I explore the metaphorical extension of logics of seeing into bureaucratic forms of ethics review. My analysis untethers the witnessing voice from an individual 'point of view', focusing on the attestive assemblage and its documentation. By exploring the committee as a form of collective attestation, I aim to show witnessing as a form of ethical work, for ethical ends
Political science · Witness · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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The New Censorship
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Testimony and attestation
Ethical variability
Social Knowledge in the Making
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology
The Anthropologist as Witness in Contemporary Regimes of Intervention
Capacity as Aggregation
The Image of Objectivity
Transcendental Perspectivism
A Social History of Truth
The New Bureaucracies of Virtue
A less modest witness
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
The Ethics of Witnessing and the Politics of the Governed
The Humanitarian Politics of Testimony
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |