Governance through scientism: Taiwan Biobank and public controversy

Autor: Wan-Ju Lee, Yu-Yueh Tsai
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: New Genetics and Society, Vol 41, Iss 4, Pp 293-311 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1463-6778
1469-9915
14636778
DOI: 10.1080/14636778.2022.2115350
Popis: Based on the concept of “governance through scientism”, this article aims to reveal the tacit practices of the institutional culture of scientism among Taiwan Biobank’s elite scientists, whose imaginaries have shaped the dominance of a deficit model of the public in dealing with public controversy and establishing regulatory mechanisms. Examining three periods of ELSI controversies from 2000 to 2021, we identify three types of scientific imaginaries of publics, namely the silent public (2000–2004), the anti-science public (2005–2010), and the EGC as the lawful public supervisory body (2010–2021). In 2010, the Human Biobank Management Act (HBMA) was passed in Taiwan as a solution to public controversy and as a strategy to bypass public engagement. However, the overemphasis on formative legislation caused actors to overlook the processual approach in which ongoing critical reflections are required for the changing operations of TBB
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