Abstract This paper analyses promissory discourse for genome editing and human health in the UK, attending to articulation of public goods their beneficiary publics. Focusing on reasoning about an emerging technology field as anticipatory ethical considerations integral such debates, notion regime a mode governance is applied concept regime. By analyzing key documents interviews with opinion le...

We examine the crafting of publics in the global Barcoding of Life Initiative (BOLI)--seen as crucial for re-invigorating, and democratizing, early-twenty-first-century taxonomic sciences and hence for actually achieving biodiversity protection. Our approach to the issue of publics differs from that of conventional public understanding of or engagement with science work. Combining science and t...

Burawoy (2005) argues that sociology needs to re-establish a public sociology oriented toward society’s problems and the practice of its unique knowledge if it is to again be taken seriously by the public, policymakers, and others. Yet, it is unclear how best to achieve these goals. We argue that the relatively young field of social gerontology provides a useful model of successful public socio...