Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, & Culture Lecture
How Scientists Produce Institutions: The Practice and Politics of Genome Editing
The CRISPR-Cas9 system has been heralded by researchers as a breakthrough biotechnology and has gained widespread use in biomedicine. Despite over 20 clinical trials for treating genetic diseases with genome- editing technologies underway, the moral basis of modifying human DNA is still debated by scientists, regulators, patients, and civil society at large. This talk reframes concerns over the ethics and governance of genome editing as a problem of institutionalization: How is the idea and discourse of genome editing rendered into a durable set of practices that become routine, legitimated and, ultimately, taken for granted?
Molina draws from participant observation, in-depth interviews, and archival research to trace the organizational, moral, and discursive dimensions of institutionalization, and argues that scientists shape the institutionalization of genome editing by resisting the encroachment of regulatory bodies and carefully maintaining the boundaries of self-governance.
This lecture will be Hybrid.
Location:
Lecture: November 16th from 4:00 - 5:30pm in Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 3227 Broadway, 5th Floor, Conference Room 084, New York NY 10027
Working Group: November 17th from 10:30am - 12:00pm in Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 3227 Broadway, 5th Floor, Conference Room 116, New York NY 10027
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