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Trust and regulatory organisations: The role of local knowledge and facework in research ethics review.
- Source :
- Social Studies of Science (Sage Publications, Ltd.); Oct2012, Vol. 42 Issue 5, p662-683, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- While trust is seen as central to most social relations, most writers, including sociologists of science, assume that modern trust relations – especially those in regulatory relationships – tend towards the impersonal. Drawing on ethnographic material from one kind of scientific oversight body – research ethics committees based in the UK NHS – this paper argues that interpersonal trust is crucial to regulatory decision-making and intimately bound up with the way in which these oversight bodies work, and that as such they build on, rather than challenge, the trust-based nature of the scientific community. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03063127
- Volume :
- 42
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Social Studies of Science (Sage Publications, Ltd.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 82379089
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312712446364