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Every month, groups of people from all over the United Kingdom decide what kind of research should be carried out on patients within the NHS. These groups – Research Ethics Committees (RECs) – made up of doctors, nurses, researchers, and members of the general public – help shape the future of medicine, and play a crucial role in the regulation of a wide range of research from social science to epidemiology, vaccine and drugs trials to surgery.

Based on extensive observations, interviews, and archival research, this book provides an in-depth insight into RECs, one of the most crucial forms of regulation around medical research. In providing one of the first empirical examinations of this kind of regulation, this book challenges the impersonal, de-socialised, and mechanical models of REC decision-making.



Table of Contents

Introduction – On the margins of a trusting system
1 Paper promises or written applications as trust warrants
2 Trust, local knowledge, and distributed centralisation
3 Facework, interaction, and the performance of trustworthiness
4 Reviewing science, trusting the reviewers
Conclusion – Regulatory giraffes?

Index

Trust in the System: Research Ethics Committees

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 15 November 2022
      ISBN-13 9781526167057
      978-1526167057
      ISBN-10 1526167050
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      Medical sociology Sociology and anthropology Science & Nature Impact of science and technology on society

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Every month, groups of people from all over the United Kingdom decide what kind of research should be carried out on patients within the NHS. These groups – Research Ethics Committees (RECs) – made up of doctors, nurses, researchers, and members of the general public – help shape the future of medicine, and play a crucial role in the regulation of a wide range of research from social science to epidemiology, vaccine and drugs trials to surgery.

      Based on extensive observations, interviews, and archival research, this book provides an in-depth insight into RECs, one of the most crucial forms of regulation around medical research. In providing one of the first empirical examinations of this kind of regulation, this book challenges the impersonal, de-socialised, and mechanical models of REC decision-making.



      Table of Contents

      Introduction – On the margins of a trusting system
      1 Paper promises or written applications as trust warrants
      2 Trust, local knowledge, and distributed centralisation
      3 Facework, interaction, and the performance of trustworthiness
      4 Reviewing science, trusting the reviewers
      Conclusion – Regulatory giraffes?

      Index

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