Lecture: Preforming ethical boundary work with experts in genetic medicine

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Title: Preforming ethical boundary work with experts in genetic medicine
Description: ELSA research has become an integral part of genome research. As accompanying measure it is meant to investigate the implications of what has been labelled as the lead science of the 21st century. Funding bodies do not only encourage STS researchers to choose genomics for a research subject, but they expect them to engage with science in the making and even actively shape its development. “Acting with” genome research transgresses conventional forms of scientific practices and well-established epistemologies, but it also raises fundamental questions for the researchers involved. Genomics operates in a field of intersecting demands. Scientists are urged to contribute to health care policy goals, to innovation and economic growth, but they must also meet academic performance indicators. STS researchers on the other hand are asked to explore ethical, social and legal implications of genome research. However, this task cannot be undertaken from a privileged position where there is no influence from societal forces or political agendas. Occasionally ELSA researchers are confronted with rather instrumental demands of various stakeholders engaged with genome research and consequently at risk to act for somebody else’s agenda rather than to act with them. But researchers may also pursue their own agendas or feel committed to ethical principles. However, ones own stake as a researcher is not merely an issue of personal choice, but it is also subject to attribution by others. Against this backdrop I will address such normative undercurrents which run through any “acting with” or interventionist approaches.
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Type: Registered lecture
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Event: Acting with Science, Technology and Medicine (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Date: 23.08.2008
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Bernhard Wieser
Bernhard.Wieser@aau.at
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Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften
  Institut für Technik- und Wissenschaftsforschung
B07b (LS) / Universitätsstraße 65-67
9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
Austria
   andrea.lassnig@aau.at
https://www.aau.at/sts/
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B07b (LS) / Universitätsstraße 65-67
AT - 9020  Klagenfurt am Wörthersee

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  • 5912 - Social sciences (interdisciplinary)
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