Article ID: CBB128580755

Documenting the doable and doing the documented: Bridging strategies at the UK Stem Cell Bank (December 2011)

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We explore the local negotiation of regulatory practice at the UK Stem Cell Bank, the first Bank of its type in the world. Basing our empirical work on a detailed analysis of one aspect of the Bank’s regulatory commitment – the completion of the Cell Line Information form – we make visible the necessary judgements and labour involved in interpreting and operationalizing externally imposed regulation. The discussion opens by detailing the problems encountered when the Bank completes the form: reconciling a bureaucratic system of accountability with craft-like laboratory skills involving multiple kinds of tacit knowledge. We follow this by explicating the emergent ‘bridging strategies’ pursued by the Bank to address these issues, highlighting their reliance upon the formation of trust and social networks. The closing discussion emphasizes the contingent assembly of regulatory practices that emerge in the local setting.

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Authors & Contributors
Kroløkke, Charlotte
Paraskevas Vezyridis
Mansfield, Becky
Rosemann, Achim
Hauskeller, Christine
Kotsi, Filareti
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Medicine
Medicine and society
Regulation
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Stem cells
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Places
Great Britain
Italy
Brazil
Dubai
South Korea
United States
Institutions
National Health Services--Great Britain
National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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