The Co-production of Science, Ethics, and Emotion

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ID5337360
AuthorsMartyn Pickersgill (0000-0001-9807-9148, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume37
Issue6
Pages579-603
Publication date2012-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243911433057
OpenAlexW2137920164
LanguageEN
Citations received65
References cited43

The concept of "ethical research" holds considerable sway over the ways in which contemporary biomedical, natural, and social science investigations are funded, regulated, and practiced within a variety of countries. Some commentators have viewed this "new" means of governance positively; others, however, have been resoundingly critical, regarding it as restrictive and ethics bodies and regulations unfit for the task they have been set (or have set themselves). Regardless, it is clear that science today is an "ethical" business. The ways in which formal and informal ethical discourses and practices-what might be called "regimes of normativity"-structure scientific work and the meanings it is ascribed with have, however, been underexplored. This article attends to how science and ethics articulate; how they are, in many ways, co-produced. Exploring these processes of co-production casts into sharp relief the essential emotionality of science; the relationships investigators have with their colleagues, work, and research participants pulse with emotion, potentially shaping in important ways the very kinds of knowledge that laboratories produce

Corporate governance · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Management · Sociology · Engineering · Ethics in Clinical Research · Ethics in medical practice · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Philosophy

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