The co-production of the biobank object: law and biomedical technoscience
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https://doi.org/10.15332/iust.v24i28.3320Keywords:
Biobank, Co-production, Epistemological sovereignty, Dialogic governanceAbstract
Colombian law is part of the States that have decided to draft a specific regulatory framework for the regulation of biobanks in biomedical, biotechnological, and epidemiological research. However, biobanks are “objects” that have already been defined, used, and assembled into identities, institutions, discourses, and representations from other areas of social and scientific knowledge. In the technoscientific world, law does not have the only word. For this purpose, this article proposes a co-productive dialogue between what law imagines a biobank should be, in a Global South State, and what social studies of science and technology (STS) describe, as well as the care that a normative or prescriptive epistemology like law should take with quality practices, standardization, and normalization of processes, typical of business administration and industrial engineering, which compete with law regarding how to govern the biobanks.
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