Situated bio-regulation: Ethnographic sensibility at the interface of STS, policy studies and the social studies of medicine
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Situated bio-regulation : Ethnographic sensibility at the interface of STS, policy studies and the social studies of medicine. / Prainsack, Barbara; Wahlberg, Ayo.
In: BioSocieties, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2013, p. 336-359.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Situated bio-regulation
T2 - Ethnographic sensibility at the interface of STS, policy studies and the social studies of medicine
AU - Prainsack, Barbara
AU - Wahlberg, Ayo
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Several years ago, both authors engaged in research into bioscience and biomedical regulation in Asian countries. One of us (BP) explored why the regulatory and discursive embedding of human embryonic stem cell in Israel was much more permissive than elsewhere. The other author (AW) sought to understand the conditions under which traditional herbal medicine came to be mobilised in Vietnam’s national health delivery system to an extent that it is now considered one of the most integrated in the world. In both cases, we found that to understand science policies and regulatory frameworks we needed to go beyond official documents and expert interviews, and instead move the meanings of social conventions, political, legal, and social histories, as well as other informal practices, into the focus of our studies. Exploring these conditions of possibility for the regulatory configurations in our case studies meant bringing what we call ‘ethnographic sensibility’ to our research. This paper discusses the implications of this approach, which often entails rendering visible the contradictions and ‘disorders’ in what seems coherent and orderly.
AB - Several years ago, both authors engaged in research into bioscience and biomedical regulation in Asian countries. One of us (BP) explored why the regulatory and discursive embedding of human embryonic stem cell in Israel was much more permissive than elsewhere. The other author (AW) sought to understand the conditions under which traditional herbal medicine came to be mobilised in Vietnam’s national health delivery system to an extent that it is now considered one of the most integrated in the world. In both cases, we found that to understand science policies and regulatory frameworks we needed to go beyond official documents and expert interviews, and instead move the meanings of social conventions, political, legal, and social histories, as well as other informal practices, into the focus of our studies. Exploring these conditions of possibility for the regulatory configurations in our case studies meant bringing what we call ‘ethnographic sensibility’ to our research. This paper discusses the implications of this approach, which often entails rendering visible the contradictions and ‘disorders’ in what seems coherent and orderly.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - policy research
KW - ethnographic sensibility
KW - expert/elite interviews
KW - STS
KW - stem cell research
KW - herbal medicine
U2 - 10.1057/biosoc.2013.14
DO - 10.1057/biosoc.2013.14
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
SP - 336
EP - 359
JO - BioSocieties
JF - BioSocieties
SN - 1745-8552
IS - 3
ER -
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