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Dear all,
You are cordially invited to a seminar in the King's Centre for
Biomedicine & Society (CBAS) 2007-2008 Seminar Series:
Thursday 13 March 2008 - 17.00-18.30, Room 3, South Range,
Strand Campus, King's College London.
Standards, standardisation, and safety: from uncertainty to pragmatics
Professor Andrew Webster, SATSU, University of York, UK
Chair, Professor Brian Salter, CBAS
Abstract
This paper explores the role of the International Stem Cell Initiative
(ISCI) in its attempt to develop biological standards and experimental
protocols for the human Embryonic Stem Cell (hESC) field as a whole.
Drawing on empirical research derived from UK and other labs and
fieldwork within ISCI meetings, we describe the way standards have
emerged and the difficulties in stabilising them at the local level.
The paper discusses the ways in which this form of
governance-by-standards acts to manage uncertainty ? to a degree ? and
suggests that this requirement to manage uncertainty is becoming a key
characteristic of what we call ?basic innovation?. We conclude by
drawing out the implications of this for the management of uncertainty
and the increasingly diverse regulatory space that will be needed to
oversee the eventual application clinical of hESC.
All welcome - any queries, contact Steven Wainwright:
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www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/cbas/
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Professor Steven Wainwright
Co-Director Centre for Biomedicine & Society (CBAS)
Professor of Sociology of Medicine, Science & the Arts
School of Social Science & Public Policy
King's College London, University of London
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/cbas/
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