Flear, Mark L --- "European Union biomedical research law and policy and citizen science" [2017] ELECD 579; in Hervey, K. Tamara; Young, A. Calum; Bishop, E. Louise (eds), "Research Handbook on EU Health Law and Policy" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 134

Book Title: Research Handbook on EU Health Law and Policy

Editor(s): Hervey, K. Tamara; Young, A. Calum; Bishop, E. Louise

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785364716

Section: Chapter 6

Section Title: European Union biomedical research law and policy and citizen science

Author(s): Flear, Mark L

Number of pages: 22

Abstract/Description:

Both people and products – as ‘citizens’ and ‘science’ – appear in Mark Flear’s chapter on EU biomedical research law and policy. Flear shows how the spaces created for biomedical research by EU law and policy embody a particular type of citizen, and play on narratives of hope and promise. The result is an obfuscation of the dominant drivers of market-oriented norms and values, and a legitimation of particular types of EU health law and policy.