Science governance and the politics of proper talk: governmental bioethics as a new technology of reflexive government

摘要: Abstract The article examines the emergence of governmental bioethics in Great Britain, France and Germany, i.e. bodies, discourses procedures meant to guide policy-making terms ethical considerations. It argues that bioethics, marked by openness, transparency participation, can be understood as a form reflexive government realm science governance. grew out problematization older forms governance based on ideas effectiveness, scientific expertise system stability, operates through structuring managing proper talk rather than intervening processes techno-scientific development. Yet, challenging commitment ‘progress’, it stabilizes mechanisms inclusion, involvement mobilization: within framework talk, participation employed pursue oppose stability.