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Risks are increasingly regulated by international standards, and scientists play a key role in standardisation. 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.

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Book category Books in English Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects Research & information: general Decision theory: general

• Full title: Scientists and the Regulation of Risk
• Subtitle: Standardising Control
• Author: David Demortain
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9781849809436
• ID: 05107811
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Weight: 554 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. August 2011

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