Dissertation Research: The Co-Production of Knowledge and Legitimacy in Bioethics

论文研究：生命伦理学知识与合法性的共同生产

• 批准号: 0207377
• 负责人: Jennifer Croissant
• 金额: $ 0.42万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-01 至 2003-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0207377&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Co; Production; Knowledge

This dissertation research project will examine how contemporary academic bioethics in the U.S. balances the aspiration to guide biomedical research and practice with the need to become an institutionally legitimate force in society. Since its inception three decades ago, to what extent has bioethics made biomedicine more socially accountable? At the same time, to what extent has bioethics been made into a public-relations tool for academic and corporate biomedicine? This project will investigate the co-production of the legitimacy and intellectual content of the academic field of bioethics by examining theactivities of bioethicists in three professional arenas: the establishment and furtherance of an academic bioethics unit, the testimony of expert bioethics witnesses in the judicial forum, and the deliberations and recommendations of a federal bioethics commission. Bioethicists' efforts to legitimize their field are viewed as competition and collaboration with other professionals to stake out an emblematic expertise, which is then tendered to various societal clients. A case study of an academic bioethics unit will be conducted to reveal how the unit's efforts to secure material resources and organizational legitimacy shapes the center's intellectual output, drawing on the unit's archival documents and interviews with the unit's director, faculty, staff, and graduate students. Discourse analysis will be used to explore how bioethicists and other professionals seek to legitimize and circumscribe their respective expertise, making use of courtroom proceedings in bioethics cases and the proceedings of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission related to the human stem cell research debate. The proposed research on the social aspects of the intellectual and organizational basis of recent bioethics shifts attention in the budding sociology of bioethics from clinical to academic bioethics, and highlights the institutional and power relationships between bioethics and public policy. This study will also contribute to the fields of higher education studies and science and technology studies, where ethics, and the relationship between legitimacy and knowledge content, have not been sufficiently explored. The findings of this project will provide useful insight into the challenges and opportunities bioethicists face in cultivating socially responsible biomedical science and technology.

本论文研究项目将探讨当代学术生物伦理学如何在美国平衡指导生物医学研究和实践的愿望，并需要成为社会中的制度合法力量。自三十年前成立以来，生物伦理学在多大程度上使生物医学更具社会责任感？与此同时，生物伦理学在多大程度上成为学术界和企业生物医学的公共关系工具？该项目将通过审查生物伦理学家在三个专业领域的活动，调查生物伦理学学术领域的合法性和知识内容的共同产生：建立和促进一个学术生物伦理学单位，生物伦理学专家证人在司法论坛上的证词，以及联邦生物伦理学委员会的审议和建议。生物伦理学家使其领域合法化的努力被视为与其他专业人士的竞争和合作，以展示象征性的专业知识，然后将其提供给各种社会客户。一个学术生物伦理单位的案例研究将进行，以揭示该单位的努力，以确保物质资源和组织的合法性形状中心的智力输出，借鉴该单位的档案文件和采访单位的主任，教师，工作人员和研究生。话语分析将被用来探讨如何生物伦理学家和其他专业人士寻求合法化和限制他们各自的专业知识，利用生物伦理学案件的法庭诉讼程序和国家生物伦理学咨询委员会有关人类干细胞研究辩论的程序。拟议的研究，最近的生命伦理学的知识和组织基础的社会方面转移注意力在萌芽中的生命伦理学社会学从临床到学术生命伦理学，并突出了生命伦理学和公共政策之间的机构和权力关系。这项研究还将有助于高等教育研究和科学技术研究领域，在这些领域，道德以及合法性与知识内容之间的关系尚未得到充分探讨。该项目的研究结果将为生物伦理学家在培养对社会负责的生物医学科学和技术方面面临的挑战和机遇提供有用的见解。