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That specialized scientific knowledge informs public decisions has become a normal, institutionalized phenomenon. Research and public administrations are two tightly-coupled elements of a knowledge production regime, embodied by the regulatory agencies and the multiple scientific advisory committees...
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| Language: | fra |
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Société d'Anthropologie des Connaissances
2021-03-01
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| Series: | Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rac/19302 |
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| Summary: | That specialized scientific knowledge informs public decisions has become a normal, institutionalized phenomenon. Research and public administrations are two tightly-coupled elements of a knowledge production regime, embodied by the regulatory agencies and the multiple scientific advisory committees that channel research knowledge towards governance institutions. This paper investigates the modes of relationships between research and scientific advice, assuming that they are at once more diverse, complex and controversial than what the notion of a knowledge regime entails. It looks into the positions held by toxicologists of one same laboratory in the overlapping spaces of research and scientific advice. It analytically reconstructs the moral economies that govern these commitments, or non-commitments, to doing scientific advice. That such moral economies persist in the midst of an organizational and institutional setting that is supposedly conducive to expert activities, illustrates the difficulty to generate and regulate such commitments. It contributes to explaining why toxicological research knowledge is only partly channeled in the governance of toxic chemicals. |
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| ISSN: | 1760-5393 |