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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... countries that this book compares. Many of my sources are acknowledged in references throughout the text, but I would like to single out Sue Davies and Sue Mayer for their information, advice, and friendship over the years; and Mark ...
... country's researchers had first identified the AIDS virus. By agreeing to share the credit, the two heads of state tacitly acknowledged the discovery's huge economic potential—and signaled their unwillingness to compromise those gains ...
... countries, in order to judge whether some are handling change more effectively, ethically, or democratically than others? These are the questions I set out to explore in this book through a comparative study of the politics of ...
... countries, policies concerning the life sciences have become embroiled to varying degrees in more or less self-conscious projects of nation-building or, more accurately, projects of reimagining nationhood at a critical juncture in world ...
... country studies. In the United States, we address why a once robust debate on environmental issues such as nuclear power ... countries. Why, for example, have agricultural biotechnology and GM food not become openly controversial in the ...
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 |