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TY - JOUR
T1 - "Ethics was here"
T2 - studying the language-games of ethics in the case of UK Biobank
AU - Hoeyer, Klaus
AU - Tutton, Richard
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Recent years have seen a proliferation in discourses on ethics, not least in relation to the establishment of large genetic databases, so-called biobanks. Through an analysis of UK Biobank and its so-called Ethics and Governance Framework, this paper suggests viewing the increased attention paid to ethics as part of a special mode of regulation created through what Wittgenstein called language-games. This article outlines selected aspects of this mode of regulation focusing on its political implications, namely in relation to (1) the representation of individual choice, (2) the use of public consultation, (3) the effects of ethical discourses on the establishment of regimes for property exchange, (4) and changing conceptions of governance.
AB - Recent years have seen a proliferation in discourses on ethics, not least in relation to the establishment of large genetic databases, so-called biobanks. Through an analysis of UK Biobank and its so-called Ethics and Governance Framework, this paper suggests viewing the increased attention paid to ethics as part of a special mode of regulation created through what Wittgenstein called language-games. This article outlines selected aspects of this mode of regulation focusing on its political implications, namely in relation to (1) the representation of individual choice, (2) the use of public consultation, (3) the effects of ethical discourses on the establishment of regimes for property exchange, (4) and changing conceptions of governance.
KW - Ethics
KW - biobanks
KW - governance
KW - policy making
KW - language-games
U2 - 10.1080/09581590500523533
DO - 10.1080/09581590500523533
M3 - Journal article
VL - 15
SP - 385
EP - 397
JO - Critical Public Health
JF - Critical Public Health
SN - 0958-1596
IS - 4
ER -