Journal article
The integration of citizens into a science/policy network in genetics: governance arrangements and asymmetry in expertise
Abstract
OBJECTIVE While there are increasing calls for public input into health research and policy, the actual obtaining of such input faces many challenges in practice. This article examines how a Canadian science/policy network in the field of genetics integrated citizens into its structure and then managed their participation. METHODS Our ethnographic case study covers a 5-year period (2003-08) and combines four data sources: observations of the …
Authors
Daudelin G; Lehoux P; Abelson J; Denis JL
Journal
Health Expectations, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 261–271
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
September 2011
DOI
10.1111/j.1369-7625.2010.00636.x
ISSN
1369-6513