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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... discourse of rights and duties once reserved for fully developed human beings. Are these new biological constructs continuous with our existing selves, and hence entitled to protection under already elaborated notions of individuality ...
... discourses arose to grapple with a significantly broader and more diversified political agenda. The implications of all these transitions for democratic politics and governance are only now becoming apparent and merit careful study ...
... discourses of public persuasion happened around genetics and related areas of science and technology. Together, these developments suggest that some of the liveliness of contemporary democracy is to be found away from the polling booths ...
... discourse in the EU and in three sovereign nations, nevertheless is understood in vastly different ways in each of its contexts of development? The range and specificity of these cross-boundary differences militate against the easy ...
... through different routes of reasoning and public justification.17 Patterns of interaction between regulators and regulated parties, as well as the reliance on particular policy procedures and discourses, appeared firm enough 17 WHY COMPARE?
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 |