The class of medicines known as ‘biologicals’ offer unique benefits and have been major life savers but they present particular problems for control of their purity and potency. In the past decade advances in molecular biology and methods of manufacture using biotechnology have led to an...

The paper focuses on how volunteer human subjects in research understand their own participation in experimentation. We ask how they view their own role, the experimental setting, and how they articulate their understanding of the researcher-subject relationship. The empirical basis of the study...

This paper focuses on the interests and strategies of the academic researcher as agent in the research and science policy system. It looks in particular at the UK context, and the structural and operational features that mitigate principal-agent tensions and allow academic ‘agents’...