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Based on extensive observation, interviews and archive research, this book provides an in-depth insight into one of the most crucial forms of regulation around medical research: research ethics committees. Every month, groups of people from all over the United Kingdom decide what kind of research should be carried out on patients within the National Health Service. These groups - Research Ethics Committees (RECs) - made up of doctors, nurses, researchers, and members of the general public - help shape the future of medicine, and play a crucial role in the regulation of a wide range of research from social science to epidemiology, vaccine and drugs trials and surgery. This book highlights how, despite the trappings of a modern regulatory system, REC decision making revolves around very old-fashioned aspects of social life such as interpersonal trust, reputation and the performance of character.

Medical ethics committees --- Medical ethics --- Biology --- Medicine --- Decision making. --- Research --- Law and legislation --- bioethics. --- ethnography. --- institutional review boards. --- medical ethics. --- regulation. --- research ethics committees. --- research ethics review. --- research governance. --- trust.