Editing future life and biotechnological utopias in the Nordic countries

• This paper is based on a three-year project recently started in Sweden. In this project we will investigate how “Responsible research and innovation” (RRI) is (re)produced at the intersection between the laboratory and the surrounding society, and between the researchers' everyday work practices and society's discourses on modern biomedicine. The two technologies studied in the project are CRISPR technology and neuro-transplantation with stem cells. A question central to the project, is to study the biomedical researchers' everyday life and how they "respond" to the uncertain and unpredictable consequences that exist in the research on the biomodifying technologies. What ethical issues are raised in relation to different bio-modifying technologies? This is a question that relate to the panel theme and we will therefore focus our paper on the discourses in the Nordic countries – manly Sweden and Denmark - and what modes of de/politization we can find concerning editing genome technologies. We will do this by focusing on laboratories that recently have started to work with, or are in the start-up phase for using CRISPR technology. Drawing on the issues from the panel abstract, we want to raise questions like: What kinds of new social control, hierarchies, exclusion and domination can we see in the laboratories? What kind of care and social inclusion are discussed or practised there?

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora -- Etnologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities -- Ethnology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

responsible research and innovation

laboratory

CRISPR

stem cell

Health and society

Hälsa och samhälle

Publikations- och innehållstyp

vet (ämneskategori)

kon (ämneskategori)