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Targeting brains, producing responsibilities: The use of neuroscience within British social policy
In this blog, Tineke Broer and Martyn Pickersgill discuss whether and how policy documents engage with the neurosciences in relation to three different stages in the life course.
Targets, quantification and moral deliberation
How do the sorts of compression and simplification implied by quantification affect how we reason and debate questions of distributive justice, rights, or duties?
Think-tanks and the governance of science
Martyn Pickersgill and Emilie Cloatre reflect on the discussions held during the event entitled ‘Regulating Bioscience: Between the Ivory Tower and the Policy Room’, which took place on 6 October 2014 at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre.
The power and politics of international assessments in Europe
International education assessments have become the lifeblood of education governance in Europe and globally. However, what do we really know about how education systems are measured against one another and the effects this measuring produces?
What is the patient experience?
While a concern with how people experience health and illness has long been a topic of interest in Medical Sociology and Anthropology, the emergence of the patient experience alongside quality and safety as a key measure of healthcare services is a more recent phenomenon. Yet despite its increasing prominence, what counts as a patient experience and indeed how these experiences can and should be counted remains up for debate.
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