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Abstract
This paper focuses on the specific example of the newly operational Regulation on Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products to explore the potential for biopolitics, an arena in which biocitizens can demand and contest the exercise of EU power over life. The paper shows how the discourses producing, organizing and orchestrating citizen participation in the EU’s governance of advanced therapies from above figure a ‘deficit model’ of citizens in need of education inter alia through their membership of patients’ associations who have membership of the Committee on Advanced Therapies established by the Regulation. Biocitizens are shown to be incorporated to service the EU’s legitimacy needs. The paper then warns against assuming biocitizens’ (self-) reflexivity ensures they do not reiterate and reinforce their construction within the ‘deficit model’ by unwittingly deploying the terms of their subjection. After which the paper highlights some elements that provide a rhetorical and operational opening for participation, and which therefore can be used by biocitizens to reconstruct their engagement with EU governance from below, the wider governance of advanced therapies, as well as in their self-governance.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 113-137 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law |
Volume | 2009 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
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Mapping the New Molecular Landscape: Social and Ethical Aspects of Epigenetics
Mark Flear (Participant)
24 Sep 2012Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Arts & Humanities Research Council (External organisation)
Mark Flear (Member)
01 Sep 2012 → 01 Sep 2015Activity: Membership types › Membership of external research organisation
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European Law and New Health Technologies
Mark Flear (Session chair)
25 Mar 2012Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Prizes
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Citation of research in Harvard University course, ‘Science, Power and Politics (I): IGA-313, History of Science 285a (Fall 2009)’
Flear, Mark (Recipient), 01 Sep 2009
Prize: Other distinction
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Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge for British Academy funded project ‘EU Governance in AIDS, Cancer and Obesity: Governmentality, Citizenship and Polity’
Flear, Mark (Recipient), 01 Jul 2008
Prize: Other distinction