Risks are increasingly regulated by international standards, and
scientists play a key role in standardization. This fascinating
book exposes the action of 'invisible colleges' of scientists loose
groups of prominent scientific experts who combine practical
experience of risk and control with advisory responsibility in the
formulation of international standards. Drawing upon the domains of
medicines, 'novel foods' and food hygiene, David Demortain
investigates new regulatory concepts emerging from invisible
colleges, highlighting how they shape consensus and pave the way
for international standards. He explores the relationship between
science and regulation from theoretic and historic perspectives,
and illustrates how scientific experts integrate regulatory actors
in commonly agreed modes of control and structures of regulatory
responsibilities. Sociological and political implications are also
discussed. Using innovative methodologies and an extensive insight
into food and pharmaceutical regulation, this book will provide a
much-needed reference tool for scholars and students in a range of
fields encompassing science and technology studies, public policy,
risk and environmental regulation, and transnational governance.
Contents: 1. Risk Regulation From Controversies to Common Concepts
2. Communities, Networks and Colleges: Expert Collectives in
Transnational Regulation 3. From Qualifying Products to Imputing
Adverse Events: A Short History of Risk Regulation 4. Drawing
Lessons: Medical Professionals and the Introduction of
Pharmacovigilance Planning 5. Modelling Regulation: HACCP and the
Ambitions of the Food Microbiology Elite 6. The Value of
Abstraction: Food Safety Scientists and the Invention of
Post-market Monitoring 7. Exploring Invisible Colleges: Sociology
of the Standardising Scientist 8. Scientists, Standardisation and
Regulatory Change: The Emergent Action of Invisible Colleges
Appendix 1. Research Strategy and Methodology References Index
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