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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... constitutional guarantees of human dignity? Do ES cells merit similar consideration? Do German and French experts agree on these points? And what consequences might there be for “Europe” if the continent's two most powerful legal ...
... constitutional significance.6 “On Monday night,” Jenkins sourly observed, “British stem cell research was left in the hands of a group of people with no democratic, professional or territorial legitimacy.”7 Moral authority to speak ...
... regulatory attention in Europe and the United States, biotechnology has given rise to quite different national discourses of risk and safety, naturalness and artificiality, innovation and ownership, constitutional 20 CHAPTER 1.
... constitutional rights, and bioethics.32 To account for these divergences, we must ask how policy problems were construed in different political cultures. What did biotechnology mean to the actors opposing, advocating, or seeking to ...
... constitutional.”57 The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, too, attributes to modernity's “gardening instinct” a relentless desire to root out ambivalence in all its forms;58 nature/culture hybrids that cross the conventional boundaries of ...
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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