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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... deciding if and when research in the life sciences violates fundamental human values. Is an embryo entitled to full ... decision had been reached by democratic means in an open society; it was the process, not the particular outcome ...
... decisions. It is no longer possible to deal with such staple concepts of democratic theory as citizenship or deliberation or accountability without delving into their interaction with the dynamics of knowledge creation and use. More ...
... decision. This approach illuminates how political culture plays out in technological debates and decisions—most particularly how it affects the production of public knowledge, constituting what I call the civic epistemologies of modern ...
... decision making takes its color more from the nature of the issues than from features of national culture or politics. Policymakers everywhere, so the reasoning went, would be compelled by the same scientific, technical, and economic ...
... decisions contrary to their immediate interests.19 Citizens' capacity to take issue with, and hence to deconstruct, claims made by the state is strengthened through laws that require open meetings and disclosure of relevant technical ...
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 |