Trust and regulatory organisations: The role of local knowledge and facework in research ethics review
2012 ◽
Vol 42
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pp. 662-683
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The Uk
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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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2019 ◽
Vol 12
(2)
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pp. 84
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