Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United StatesPrinceton University Press, 27 jun 2011 - 392 páginas Biology and politics have converged today across much of the industrialized world. Debates about genetically modified organisms, cloning, stem cells, animal patenting, and new reproductive technologies crowd media headlines and policy agendas. Less noticed, but no less important, are the rifts that have appeared among leading Western nations about the right way to govern innovation in genetics and biotechnology. These significant differences in law and policy, and in ethical analysis, may in a globalizing world act as obstacles to free trade, scientific inquiry, and shared understandings of human dignity. |
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... concerns about the relationship of science to the state and of innovation to economic recovery. Britain's relatively unproblematic embrace of embryo research posed a particular challenge. Not for nothing did the German sociologist ...
... concern. Science, moreover, has historically maintained its legitimacy by cultivating a careful distance from politics.12 ... concerns generated by biotechnology drew on, reproduced, or reinforced old ways of coping with hazards. In this ...
... concerns: the reinvention of the Labour Party in the post-Thatcher years, and Britain's ongoing struggle to modernize and democratize institutions seen to be out of touch with the economic and social realities of the twenty-first ...
... concerns about national identity at a time of significant geopolitical ferment. The book's third argument, not unrelated to the second, is that political culture matters to contemporary democratic politics: however slippery this concept ...
... concerns, such as the demand for free trade or globally sustainable development, are gaining political salience,7 ... concern the production and distribution of societal benefits and risks; they are cultural in that, by intervening in ...
Índice
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Controlling Narratives | 42 |
A Question of Europe | 68 |
Unsettled Settlements | 94 |
Food for Thought | 119 |
Natural Mothers and Other Kinds | 146 |
Ethical Sense and Sensibility | 171 |
The New Social Contract | 225 |
Civic Epistemology | 247 |
Republics of Science | 272 |
Chronology | 293 |
Notes | 295 |
References | 339 |
Index | 361 |
Making Something of Life | 203 |
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Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States Sheila Jasanoff No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2005 |