Regulatory Anatomy: How ‘‘Safety Logics’’ Structure European Transplant Medicine
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Regulatory Anatomy : How ‘‘Safety Logics’’ Structure European Transplant Medicine. / Hoeyer, Klaus .
I: Science, Technology & Human Values, Bind 40, Nr. 4, 07.2015, s. 516-538.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Regulatory Anatomy
T2 - How ‘‘Safety Logics’’ Structure European Transplant Medicine
AU - Hoeyer, Klaus
PY - 2015/7
Y1 - 2015/7
N2 - This article proposes the term “safety logics” to understand attempts within the European Union (EU) to harmonize member state legislation to ensure a safe and stable supply of human biological material for transplants and transfusions. With safety logics, I refer to assemblages of discourses, legal documents, technological devices, organizational structures, and work practices aimed at minimizing risk. I use this term to reorient the analytical attention with respect to safety regulation. Instead of evaluating whether safety is achieved, the point is to explore the types of “safety” produced through these logics as well as to consider the sometimes unintended consequences of such safety work. In fact, the EU rules have been giving rise to complaints from practitioners finding the directives problematic and inadequate. In this article, I explore the problems practitioners face and why they arise. In short, I expose the regulatory anatomy of the policy landscape.
AB - This article proposes the term “safety logics” to understand attempts within the European Union (EU) to harmonize member state legislation to ensure a safe and stable supply of human biological material for transplants and transfusions. With safety logics, I refer to assemblages of discourses, legal documents, technological devices, organizational structures, and work practices aimed at minimizing risk. I use this term to reorient the analytical attention with respect to safety regulation. Instead of evaluating whether safety is achieved, the point is to explore the types of “safety” produced through these logics as well as to consider the sometimes unintended consequences of such safety work. In fact, the EU rules have been giving rise to complaints from practitioners finding the directives problematic and inadequate. In this article, I explore the problems practitioners face and why they arise. In short, I expose the regulatory anatomy of the policy landscape.
U2 - 10.1177/0162243915570947
DO - 10.1177/0162243915570947
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 26139952
VL - 40
SP - 516
EP - 538
JO - Science Technology and Human Values
JF - Science Technology and Human Values
SN - 0162-2439
IS - 4
ER -
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