How Politics Deals with Expert Dissent: The Case of Ethics Councils

How Politics Deals with Expert Dissent: The Case of Ethics Councils

Over recent years, science and technology have been reassessed increasingly in ethical terms. Particularly for life science governance, ethics has become the dominant discourse. In the course of this ‘‘ethical turn’’ national ethics councils were set up throughout Europe and in the United States to advice politics in ethically controversial issues such as stem cell research and genetic testing....

The Ethics of Dissent: The Case of David Kelly

In this paper, we rely on the story of the late British weapons inspector David Kelly to illustrate how sensemaking can inform the study of the ethics of suppression of dissent. Using archival data, we reconstruct Dr. Kelly’s key responsibilities as a weapons inspector and government employee. We begin by clarifying the concept of dissent and how it is a useful organizational process. We identi...

How to integrate ethics, politics and innovation

an investigation of the types of text reduction in subtitling: a case study of the persian film gilaneh with english subtitles

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How the lung deals with oxidants.

Oxidants are compounds capable of withdrawing electrons from target atoms or molecules, thus initiating chemical reactions. In biological systems, oxidative modifications are often related to structural, functional and regulatory changes. Partially reduced oxygen species, also known as oxygen-derived free radicals, represent the most important group of biologically relevant oxidants. Significan...