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Comparing national home-keeping and the regulation of translational stem cell applications : an international perspective
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Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret, Chekar, Choon-Key, Faulkner, Alex, Heitmeyer, Carolyn, Marouda, Marina, Rosemann, Achim, Chaisinthop, Nattak, Chang, Hing-Chieh, Ely, Adrian, Kato, Masae, Patra, Prasanna, Su, Yeyang, Sui, Suli, Suzuki, Wakana and Zhang , Xinqing (2016) Comparing national home-keeping and the regulation of translational stem cell applications : an international perspective. Social Science & Medicine, 153 . pp. 240-249. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.01.047 ISSN 0277-9536.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/110.1016/j.socscimed.2016.01.047
Abstract
A very large grey area exists between translational stem cell research and applications that comply with the ideals of randomised control trials and good laboratory and clinical practice and what is often referred to as snake-oil trade. We identify a discrepancy between international research and ethics regulation and the ways in which regulatory instruments in the stem cell field are developed in practice. We examine this discrepancy using the notion of ‘national home-keeping’, referring to the way governments articulate international standards and regulation with conflicting demands on local players at home.
Identifying particular dimensions of regulatory tools - authority, permissions, space and acceleration – as crucial to national home-keeping in Asia, Europe and the USA, we show how local regulation works to enable development of the field, notwithstanding international (i.e. principally ‘western’) regulation. Triangulating regulation with empirical data and archival research between 2012 and 2015 has helped us to shed light on how countries and organisations adapt and resist internationally dominant regulation through the manipulation of regulatory tools (contingent upon country size, the state’s ability to accumulate resources, healthcare demands, established traditions of scientific governance, and economic and scientific ambitions).
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) Q Science > QH Natural history R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Stem cells--Research, Clinical trials | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Social Science & Medicine | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0277-9536 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | March 2016 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 153 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 240-249 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.01.047 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 August 2016 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 August 2016 | ||||||||||
Funder: | European Research Council (ERC), Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||||||||
Grant number: | 283219 (ERC) ; ES/I018107/1, ES/J012521/1, ES/L002779/1 (ESRC) | ||||||||||
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