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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... deliberating on the constitution of Europe for the twenty-first century. . . . Andere Länder, andere Sitten, the Germans like to say, or “other lands, other customs.” With regard to the life sciences, however, this adage holds only ...
... deliberation or accountability without delving into their interaction with the dynamics of knowledge creation and use. More specifically, biological sciences and their applications have brought about ontological changes and ...
... deliberation on what is at stake in biotechnology policy has been tied to two recurrent narratives of nationhood: the still unfinished project of reconstituting German identity after two world wars and the Holocaust, and more recent ...
... deliberative democracies have tried to come to terms with one of the most far-reaching advances in the human ability to intervene in nature. In the process, I take issue with or reject as incomplete some commonly held views about cross ...
... deliberation. But equally, as we shall see, political culture includes the moves by which a polity, almost by default, takes some issues or questions out of the domain of politics as usual. An important part of this book's argument is ...
Índice
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13 | |
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 Vista previa restringida - 2005 |
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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 |