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Experts and Expertise

Gilbert, Claude; Henry, Emmanuel (2014-02), Experts and Expertise, in William C. Cockerham, Robert Dingwall, Stella R. Quah, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society, Wiley-Blackwell : Chichester, p. 531–534

Type
Chapitre d'ouvrage
Date
2014-02
Book title
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society
Book author
William C. Cockerham, Robert Dingwall, Stella R. Quah
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Published in
Chichester
ISBN
9781118410868
Number of pages
2648
Pages
531–534
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Author(s)
Gilbert, Claude
Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales [PACTE]
Henry, Emmanuel cc
Abstract (EN)
Expertise – and scientific expertise more specifically – is seen as crucial to public health decision-making. The idea that, in order to deal with increasingly complex problems in this regard, decision-makers must rely on experts and the knowledge they mobilize is no longer questioned. Yet the articulation of expertise and public decision-making is not self-evident. Both expertise and the place experts should have in decision-making processes are a core issue in many debates.
Subjects / Keywords
expertise; sociologie; science politique
JEL
G28 - Government Policy and Regulation
I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health