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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... created an atmosphere of gentle melancholy. The subject, too, was suitably grave, though not at first glance political. Officially it was a conference on basic European values in bioethics (europäische Grundwerte in der Bioethik), but ...
... creating new embryonic stem cells, but they could be used to fund research on cell lines that already existed. The news made headlines in the quiet days before September 11, 2001, but it was not the first time that presidential ...
... creation and use. More specifically, biological sciences and their applications have brought about ontological changes and reclassifications in the world, producing new entities and new ways of understanding 6 PROLOGUE.
... creating an independent high court and imposing fees on university students.15 In Brussels, no less than in Berlin or London, dilemmas about political identity and institutional legitimacy became wrapped up with those related to ...
... creation that frame problems for collective action, build communal identities, and allow actors to mobilize against perceived injustices. To quote one distinguished team of converts: We come from a structuralist tradition. But 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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