The Global Politics Of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Regulation
Abstract
Regulatory policy is a key political site where competition for the social, scientific and industrial future of human embryonic stem cells takes place at the national, regional and international levels. That competition is driven by global political forces which transcend national boundaries as they seek to influence the future shape of regulatory policy. The aim of the project is to develop an analysis of these political forces, to identify their impact on the UK ESC regulatory regime, and explore their implications for UK policy making. Firstly, building on the existing work of the project team, the legislative, organisational and ideological components of the regulatory models currently in use will be mapped in detail and an initial understanding established of the political dynamic at work in this field. Secondly, approximately 100 semi-structured interviews will be used to identify (a) the major pressures for regulatory change from the national and transnational policy networks of civil society, science and industry and (b) further develop the understanding of the political dynamic shaping the likely regulatory response. Finally, the implications for regulatory policy of the analysis thus constructed will be explored with UK policy makers.
Contacts
Outputs
Poster
http://www.york.ac.uk/res/sci/posters/salterproject.pdf
Website
www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/cbas/research/biopolitics/
Fellowships
Catherine Waldby 2008 ESRC Stem Cell Initiative International Visiting Research Fellowship - Centre for Biomedicine & Society , King's College, London - £2750
2008 Andrew Webster and Catherine Waldby (Host collaborator), International Visiting Research Fellowship, Sydney University - The social studie of Regenerative Medicine: building research capacity and collaboration, $11,500.
Working Papers
It is the project’s policy to promote a dialogue about the implications of its findings at the earliest opportunity. To this end, the research team has produced a series of working papers, all of which are either forthcoming publications or submitted to journals for review. Copyright restrictions permitting, working papers are available to download from http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/cbas/research/biopolitics/papers/
Working Paper 1
Brian Salter, 'Cultural biopolitics and bioethics', November 2004. This paper analyses the EU debate regarding stem cell research. A revised version will be published in Mapping Biopolitics: Medical-Scientific Transformations and the Rise of New Forms of Governance, Routledge (forthcoming).
Working Paper 2
Brian Salter, Charlotte Salter, 'The global politics of human embryonic stem cell science', April 2005. A revised version was published in the journal Global Governance in 2007.
Working Paper 3
Brian Salter, 'Bioethics and the global moral economy: the cultural politics of human embryonic stem cell science', Published in 2007 in Science, Technology and Human Values 32(5)
Working Paper 4
Catherine Waldby, 'Stem Cell Research, Biopolitics and Globalization' , October 2005.
A revised version will be published in Mapping Biopolitics: Medical-Scientific Transformations and the Rise of New Forms of Governance, Routledge (forthcoming).
Working Paper 5
Catherine Waldby, 'Umbilical Cord Blood: from Social Gift to Venture Capital',
November 2005. A revised version will be published in the forthcoming first issue of Biosocieties.
Working Paper 7
Amanda Dickins, 'Vital issues and theoretical challenges: International Political Economy and the Global Bioeconomy'. March 2006. Published in International Affairs, May 2006, Vol. 82 Issue 3
View here - pdf
Working Paper 8
Brian Salter, 'Bioethics, patenting and the governance of human embryonic stem cell science: the European case'. April 2006. View here - pdf
Working Paper 9
Richard D Smith and Nick Raithatha, 'Why disclosure of genetic tests for health insurance should be voluntary'. A revised version will be published in the forthcoming issue of The Journal of Health Services Research and Policy. May 2006
Working Paper 10
Catherine Waldby, 'Embryos, cell lines, oöcytes: ESC science and the human tissue market'. May 2006 view here - pdf
Working Paper 11
Brian Salter, Governing UK medical performance: a struggle for policy dominance. June 2006 published in Health Policy doi:10.1016/j.halthpol.2006.10.004
Working Paper 12
Melinda Cooper, Bodily Transformations – Tissue Engineering and the Topological Body. June 2006 View here - pdf
Working Paper 13
Brian Salter, Melinda Cooper, Amanda Dickins, China and the global stem cell bioeconomy: an emerging political strategy? July 2006 published in Regenerative Medicine 1 (5), 2006 A Chinese translation of this article appeared in Biotech World, No 21. 78-83. Wen Minneng (ed) Chen Liyuan (translator).
Working Paper 14
Catherine Waldby, Oöcyte markets: global tissue economies and women’s reproductive work in embryonic stem cell research submitted to New Genetics and Society, August 2006
Working Paper 15
Catherine Waldby & Melinda Cooper, The Biopolitics Of Reproduction: Post-Fordist Biotechnology and Women’s Clinical Labour. October 2006
Working Paper 16
Brian Salter, Melinda Cooper, Amanda Dickins, Valentina Cardo, Stem cell science in India: emerging economies and the politics of globalisation 2007 published in Regenerative Medicine 2(1):75-89. A Chinese translation of this article appeared in Biotech World, No 21. 78-83. Wen Minneng (ed) Chen Liyuan (translator). )
Working Paper 17
Mavis Jones and Brian Salter. Proceeding Carefully: assisted human reproduction policy in Canada. March 2007
Working Paper 18
Melinda Cooper, Clinical Capital—Neo-liberalism and the Will to Experiment (China and the US) April 2007
Working Paper 19
Olivia Harvey. Regulating stem-cell research and human cloning in an Australian context: the Lockhart Review. June 2007
Working Paper 20
Brian Salter. State strategies and speculative innovation in regenerative medicine: the global politics of uncertain futures. July 2007
Working paper 21
Brian Salter. Human ESC science, bioethics and the EU's Framework Programmes. July 2007 [This is a revised and update version of Working Paper 1]
Working Paper 22
Mavis Jones and Brian Salter. Learning to regulate: Values, actors, and instruments in developing Canada’s assisted human reproduction framework. July 2007
Working Paper 23
Olivia Harvey. STS perspectives on the components of innovation in human embryonic stem cell research: A US case-study. July 2007
Working Paper 24
Brian Salter and Catherine Waldby. Contested governance in human embryonic stem cell science: uncertainty and standardisation in research and patenting. November 2007.
Working Paper 25
Brian Salter Bioethical governance and basic stem cell science: China and the global biomedicine economy. January 2008.
Working Paper 27
Catherine Waldby Singapore Biopolis: Bare Life in the City State
April 2008.
Books
Gottweiss, H., Salter, B. and Waldby, C. (2008) The Global Politics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Palgrave (in press).
Journal Papers
Waldby, C. & Salter, B. (2008) Global Governance in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Science: Standardisation and Bioethics in Research and Patenting. Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology: Vol. 2 : Iss. 1, Article 12. Available at: http://www.bepress.com/selt/vol2/iss1/art12
Salter B (2008) Governing stem cell science in China and India : emerging economies and the global politics of innovation. New Genetics and Society. 27(2): 145-49.
Salter B and Harvey O (2008). Stem cell innovation in the USA : the benefits of the minimal state. Regenerative Medicine. 3(4).
Catherine Waldby ‘Singapore Biopolis: Bare Life in the City State ’ invited submission to special issue of East Asian STS Journal “Science and Technology in Modern Southeast Asia” editor Warwick Anderson
Waldby, Catherine and Salter, Brian (2008) "Global Governance in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Science: Standardisation and Bioethics in Research and Patenting," Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology: Vol. 2 : Iss. 1, Article 12. Available at: http://www.bepress.com/selt/vol2/iss1/art12
Waldby, Catherine (2008) ‘ Oöcyte markets: women’s reproductive labour in embryonic stem cell research’ New Genetics and Society 27:1, 19-31
Waldby, Catherine & Cooper, Melinda (2008) ‘ The Biopolitics of Reproduction: Post-Fordist Biotechnology and Women’s Clinical Labour’ in Australian Feminist Studies vol. 23:55 , 57 – 73 special issue The Two Cultures.
Brian Salter, Melinda Cooper, Amanda Dickins & Valentina Cardo 'Stem cell science in India: emerging economies and the politics of globalization' Regenerative Med. (2007) 2(1), 75–89 here
Brian Salter, Melinda Cooper, Amanda Dickings, 'China and the Global Stem Cell Bioeconomy: an Emerging Politial Strategy?'. Regenerative Medicine (2006) 1 (5), 671-683 view here - pdf
Cooper M. (2006). Resuscitations: Stem Cells and the Crisis of Old Age. Body and Society 12(1), March.
Cooper M (2006). The Unborn Born Again" PostModern Culture Fall Issue 17.1.
Cooper M. (2006) Contorsions -- Tissue Engineering and the Topological Body. Configurations - Journal of Science and Literature Winter issue.
Cooper M (2007) Surplus Life - Biotechnics and the Transformations of Capital. Seattle: University of Washiington Press.
Cooper, M. & Waldby, C (2007). ‘The Biopolitics Of Reproduction: Post-Fordist Biotechnology and Women’s Clinical Labour’ for Australian Feminist Studies special issue The Two Cultures .
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Dickins, A. "The international political economy of regenerative medicine: Challenges for / from emerging economies" in S MacLean et al (eds), Health for Some: the political economy of global health governance, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2008.
Dickins, A. "The evolution of international political economy". International Affairs, special issue, May 2006.
Dickins, A and Salter B. "Ethics and the Regulation of Biotechnology: The European Union and Bioethics”, Regulatory Affairs Focus, November 2005.
Gottweis H, Salter B, Waldby C (forthcoming 2008). The global politics of human embryonic stem cell science. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Gottweis, H and B Prainsack (2006) Emotion in Political Discourse: Contrasting Approaches to Stem Cell Governance: the US, UK, Israel, and Germany”. Regenerative Medicine, 1, 823-829.
Gottweis H and Triendl R (2006). South Korean policy failure and the Hwang debacle. Nature Biotechnology, 24(2): 141-3.
Salter B(2006). Cultural politics, human embryonic stem cell science and the European Union’s Framework Programme Six, in Webster,A and Wyatt, S (eds), Innovative Health Technologies: new perspectives, challenges and change. Basingstoke; Palgrave.
Salter B (2007). Patenting, morality and human embryonic stem cell science: bioethics and cultural politics in Europe. Regenerative Medicine. 2(3): 301-11.
Salter B (2007) ‘The global politics of human embryonic stem cell science’. Global Governance. 13: 277-98.
Salter B (2007). Bioethics and the global moral economy: the cultural politics of human embryonic stem cell science. Science, Technology and Human Values. 32(5): 1-28.
Salter B (forthcoming 2008) Bioethics, politics and the moral economy of human embryonic stem cell science: the case of the European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme. New Genetics and Society.
Salter B (forthcoming 2008) Governing stem cell science in China and India: emerging economies and the global politics of innovation. New Genetics and Society.
Salter B (forthcoming 2008), Cultural biopolitics and bioethics: the case of human embryonic stem cells ant the European Union’s Framework Programme Six. In K.Braun and H.Gottweis (eds). Mapping Biopolitics: Medical-Scientific Transformations and the Rise of New Forms of Governance, Routledge.
Salter B, Cooper M, Dickins A (2006). China and the global stem cell bioeconomy: an emerging political strategy? Regenerative Medicine. 1(5): 671-83. A Chinese translation of this article appeared in Biotech World, No 21. 78-83. Wen Minneng (ed) Chen Liyuan (translator).
Salter B,Cooper M, Dickins A, Cardo V (2007). Stem cell science in India: emerging economies and the politics of globalisation. Regenerative Medicine. 2(1): 75-89. A Chinese translation of this article appeared in Biotech World, No 21. 78-83. Wen Minneng (ed) Chen Liyuan (translator).
Salter B and Jones M (2005) ‘Biobanks and bioethics: the politics of legitimation’. Journal of European Public Policy. 12 (4): 710-732
Salter B and Jones M (2006) ‘Change in the policy community of human genetics: a pragmatic approach to open governance’. Policy and Politics. 34(2): 347-66.
Waldby, C ‘Umbilical Cord Blood: from Social Gift to Venture Capital’ BioSocieties, 2006, 1(1).
Waldby C (forthcoming 2008). Stem Cell Research, Biopolitics and Globalization. In K.Braun and H.Gottweis (eds). Mapping biopolitics: Medical-scientific transformations and the rise of new forms of governance, Routledge, London.
Waldby, C (forthcoming 2008). ‘Oöcyte markets: global tissue economies and women’s reproductive labour in embryonic stem cell research’ New Genetics and Society.
Events and Presentations
February 2006
"Regenerations " - Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby gave a talk about their recent work in a seminar and workshop at BIOS, London School of Economics.
22nd March 2006
Professor Salter and Susan Wallace led a workshop on Stem cells: regulatory and policy issues at the Genetics and Health Policy Course at Hinxton Hall, on behalf of Cambridge Genetics Knowledge Park.
22nd – 24th March 2006
Brian Salter was one of the invited speakers at the workshop "Modern Biology and Its Social Impact”. Brian’s paper is entitled “Bioethics and the global politics of human embryonic stem cell science”. The Seminar was hosted by the ESRC Genomics Research Forum with the support of the National Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Academy of Science.
22nd - 25th March 2006
Amanda Dickins presented a paper on "Ethics and the Global Regulation of Bioethics" at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association in San Diego, California. The presentation was part of a panel on "The Ethics of International Ethics: The Moral Politics of International Norm-Building" that Amanda co-convened.
22nd March 2006
Professor Salter and Susan Wallace lead a workshop on Stem cells: regulatory and policy issues at the Genetics and Health Policy Course at Hinxton Hall, on behalf of Cambridge Genetics Knowledge Park.
19th - 21st April 2006
East of England Stem Cell Network Annual International Symposium, Brian Salter was Chair of the Symposium Organsing Committee. The Symposium final report is available.
27th – 28th April 2006
Brian Salter presented his paper “Bioethics and Patenting in the EU: the politics of a moral economy at the Mapping the Bioeconomy workshop. The workshop was sponsored and hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies, and organised by the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and the Centre for Science Studies, all at Lancaster University.
25th - 26th May 2006
Brian Salter delivered a paper at The Politics of Ethics and the Crisis of Government Conference at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
13th - 15th June 2006
Catherine Waldby and Melinda Cooper participated in a panel on Biopolitics, Biotechnology and Globalisation at the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts, in Amsterdam
23rd - 27th August 2006
Melinda Cooper chaired and presented on a panel entitled "Genealogies of the Unborn" at the EASST (European Association for Science and Technology Studies) in Lausanne.
4th - 6th September 2006
Brian delivered a paper at the Science and Democracy Conference, organised hosted by the Nobel-Museum and University College of South Stockholm
18th - 19th September 2006
Amanda Dickins presented the work of the GBRG at the Life Sciences Partnering China & Europe Programme Chinese Partnering Event.
25th – 27th September 2006
Brian Salter delivered a paper “Governing Doctors: the struggle for dominance in the UK health policy community” for the Governing Doctors International Project in Aarhus.
November 1-5, 2006
Herbet Gottweis presented his paper "Explaining Hwang-gate: Biotechnology Governance in South Korea" (together with Byoungsoo Kim, Korea University) at the session Putting the Hwang Controversy into Context of the Society of Social Studies of Science (4S) 2006 annual meeting at Vancouver, B.C., Canada. He also participated in the roundtable What can STS tell us about the Hwang Controversy?
18-20th December 2006
Amanda Dickins presented her paper 'International Ethics and the Limits of Deliberation: Global Bioethics' at the British International Studies Association Annual Conference at the University of Cork.
January 9, 2007
Brian Salter, seminar at Egenis, University of Exeter.
January 20, 2007
Melinda Cooper presented a paper on her research at the University of York, Research Centre for Theory, Culture and Society
January 26, 2007
Brian Salter, Melinda Cooper and Amanda Dickins gave a presentation on Stem cell science in the Asia Pacific at a seminar for Swedish and Danish researchers in Cambridge, hosted by the East of England Stem Cell Network.
February 21, 2007
Brian Salter gave a presentation on the regulatory framework for stem cell research in Australia at 'The Assessment of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Technologies in Australia Seminar' at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus near Cambridge.
February 22, 2007
Brian Salter spoke on "The politics of stem cell science in emerging economies: China and India" at the London Regenerative Medicine Network.
February 28 - March 3, 2007
Amanda Dickins presented her paper "The international dynamics of regulating human embryonic stem cells (hESC): arbitrage or trading up?" at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Associations in Chicago. For more information see: www.isanet.org/chicago2007/program.html
March 6, 2007
Brian Salter, Melinda Cooper and Amanda Dickins presented at the EESCN seminar event 'Stem Cell Science: Emerging Economies and Globalisation', New Hall College, Cambridge
April 12-14, 2007
Melinda Cooper presented on Clinical Capital - Pharma Outsourcing to China and India in - "From Experimental Systems to Experimental States: Anthropology at the Intersection of Life, Science and Capital" at the University of California, Irvine. http://www.socsci.uci.edu/experimentalsystems/
April 12-14, 2007
Brian Salter presented a paper on 'Global politics of human embryonic stem cell science: the Asia Pacific perspective' within the ESRC's stem cell programme stream at the British Sociological Association Conference at the University of East London.
April 26 - 29, 2007
Catherine Wadlby gave a keynote address 'Blood Archives: biobanking and the life of populations' to the Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality in the Archive Conference, University of Queensland http://www.ched.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=55908
June 13 2007
Catherine Waldby gave a public lecture 'Biology and the New Communities' to the Sydney University 2007 Key Directions Public Lecture Series
June 14, 2007
Brian Salter was a Plenary speaker at the Engineering European Bodies conference in Vienna.
June 25, 2007
Brian Salter presented a paper entitled 'States, strategies and regenerative medicine: the global politics of future values' at the Vital Geographies Seminar, Queen Mary, University of London.
June 29, 2007
Melinda Cooper was Keynote Speaker at the Biodata, Security and Health Workshop, at The Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Lancaster. Paper presented on 'Emerging Infectious Disease, Climate Change and the Global Market in Financial Derivatives'.
12 - 15 September 2007
Amanda Dickins gave a conference presentation: "The international political economy of regenerative medicine: Challenges for / from emerging economies", Pan-European Conference of Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR), Turin.
10-13 October 2007
Convenor and speaker, panel onRegenerative Medicine and Globalisation, Society for Social Studies of Science annual conference, Montreal
21 September 2007
The Global Biopolitics Research Group held a workshop on 'Government strategies and commercial models', at the Royal Society of Medicine, London.
23 October 2007
Catherine Waldby Singapore Biopolis: Bare Life in the city State ’ Inaugural public lecture, Centre for Biomedicine and Society, King’s College, London
8 November 2007
Amanda Dickins gave a seminar presentation: "Regenerative medicine in a global (bio)economy: Can China capitalise on its investment in stem cells?", Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham.
8 November 2007
Stem Cells, Standardisation and Bioethics in Research and Patenting, Centre for Biomedical Ethics , Singapore University
15 November 2007
Amanda Dickins lectured on "Global Stem Cells: Ethics and Policy" at a Stem Cell Symposium for 6th formers, Babraham Institute, Cambridge.
27 November 2007
Brian Salter and Amanda Dickins will give presentations on "The global governance of stem cell science" and "Chinese and UK strategies for the Global Bioeconomy" to a visiting Chinese delegation at KCL. Attendees for seminar include Chinese stem cell scientists and government representatives from the Centre for National Biotechnology Development and the State Food and Drug Administration.
December 7 2007
Brian Salter will present a paper on 'The global politics of speculative science', at a Forum at Sheffield University called 'Stem cell research under the microscope'.
December 12-13 2007
Brian Salter will present a paper on the 'UK National Stem Cell Network: Legal and regulatory issues' at the Cross-Council Stem Cell Grantholders Workshop at Warwick University. Amanda Dickins and Olivia Harvey will also be making presentations on their research at this event.
December 19 2007
Amanda Dickins has co-convened and will chair a panel on "Vital Commerce: Politics of The Emerging Bioeconomy" at the British International Studies Association
April 10-18, 2008
Oöcyte Markets and women’s clinical labour - Women in the Age of Biotech Forum – the International Women’s Film Festival Seoul, South Korea
6 March 2007
Stem Cell Science, Emerging Economies and Globalisation: Legal, policy and regulatory perspectives in China and India
More information here - pdf
21 February 2007
The Assessment of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Technologies in Australia
Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1RQ
Further details: www.globalwatchservice.com/pages/ThreeColumns.aspx?PageID=670&SeminarID=1993