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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... effects of protechnology state policies, global movements of knowledge and capital, and the role of transnational actors such as scientists, social movements, and industry. There are persistent differences in national ways of meeting ...
... effects of particular phenomena.44 Goffman's approach has been augmented by a rising interest across the social sciences in the narrative, discursive, and textual dimensions of human behavior, which in turn has opened up a rich seam for ...
... effects on public attitudes and actions. In one working out of these ideas, the comparatist Juan Díez Medrano has argued that national differences in attitudes toward European integration reflect how citizens in various member states ...
... effects; someone must revere them, celebrate them, defend them, impose them.”64 Biotechnology touches on all these kinds of ideas, as well as on scientific ones, which Geertz (perhaps because he was writing about Indonesia, but perhaps ...
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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 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 |