Journal
SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE
Volume 42, Issue 5, Pages 662-683Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0306312712446364
Keywords
ethics review; ethnography; regulation; research ethics committee (REC); trust
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- Sixth Framework Programme grant [EXT 509551]
- ESRC
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/F04173X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/F04173X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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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.
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