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CONTACT:bios@lse.ac.uk
ORGANIZER:BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience\, Biomedicine\, Biotechno
 logy and Society
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DESCRIPTION:Discourses on public involvement in science have become virtual
 ly hegemonic these days. So far\, formal participatory arrangements have be
 en mainly discussed in terms of legitimacy\, accountability\, impact or eff
 ectiveness. Critics of participatory exercises have focused on what these a
 rrangements do not accomplish\, what or whom they exclude\, and how their d
 emocratic potential is limited for these reasons. Looking into participator
 y exercises in the issue area of genetic testing in Germany and the UK\, I 
 suggest to explore not only the negative\, restrictive but also the positiv
 e\, productive\, mobilizing operations of participatory arrangements and to
  ask: How do participatory exercises construct publics? Which are the main 
 types of publics constructed? Through which practices of attribution\, invi
 tation\, interpellation\, categorization and classification? And how does t
 he participatory turn in scientific governance relate to the “participato
 ry turn” in the new genetics? Current genetic research strategies and dev
 ices rely in a rather literal sense on public participation in science\, in
  that they need large numbers of patients and controls in order to proceed.
  What are we to make of the “family resemblance” between these two part
 icipatory turns?
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SUMMARY:"A certain amount of engineering involved" - scientific governance\
 , the participatory turn and the new genetics
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LOCATION:London School of Economics BIOS Centre\, Clement House Room D111\,
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