title: Investigating Public trust in Expert Knowledge: Narrative, Ethics, and Engagement.
abstract: "Public Trust in Expert Knowledge: Narrative, Ethics, and Engagement" examines the social, cultural, and ethical ramifications of changing public trust in the expert biomedical knowledge systems of emergent and complex global societies. This symposium was conceived as an interdisciplinary project, drawing on bioethics, the social sciences, and the medical humanities. We settled on public trust as a topic for our work together because its problematization cuts across our fields and substantive research interests. For us, trust is simultaneously a matter of ethics, social relations, and the cultural organization of meaning. We share a commitment to narrative inquiry across our fields of expertise in the bioethics of transformative health technologies, public communications on health threats, and narrative medicine. The contributions to this symposium have applied, in different ways and with different effects, this interdisciplinary mode of inquiry, supplying new reflections on public trust, expertise, and biomedical knowledge.
authors.affiliation: Bioethics and Society, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, WC2R 2LS, London, UK. silvia.camporesi@kcl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Camporesi
authors.affiliation: Medical Humanities, Department of English, University of Bristol, 3-5 Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vaccarella
authors.affiliation: School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Davis
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D003657:Decision Making; D017041:Ethics Committees; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D009014:Morals; D033262:Narration; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards*; D011639:Public Opinion; D012945:Social Values; D035502:Trust
keywords: Biopolitics; Expert knowledge; Expertise; Narrative; Public trust; Trust