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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... culture. Schloss Genshagen, the institute's headquarters, provides an elegant if modest venue for consolidating the new Europe. Built in 1878 as the manor house of Baron Leberecht von Eberstein, the imposing, four-story building and its ...
... cultures hold different views from Britain, their skeptical partner and ally across the English Channel? For Germany's ruling “red-green” coalition of Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens in 2001, these questions were not only metaphysical ...
... cultural expertise, and the secular, progressive imagination of science.3 At issue as well was the degree of internal dissension that Europe could tolerate on fundamental values and still remain, meaningfully, a single Europe. In ...
... culture? What will it mean for existing institutions of governance if science and technology, far from operating as objective legitimators of policy, themselves appear as catalysts of domestic and international political turmoil? And ...
... culture to “other” places and times—much in the way that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cultural anthropologists found culture only in alien, primitive, or marginal societies, assuming that their own social beliefs were founded ...
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 |