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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... field in the 1990s. The now dissolved Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) was an early supporter. The case studies I wrote for OTA's 1984 study of international developments in biotechnology and for its 1987 report on the bicentennial ...
... fields of economics, politics, science, and 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 ...
... field of science and technology studies. Through a combination of historical reflection, close textual reading, personal interviews, observation of key institutions, and qualitative analysis of legal and political developments, I try to ...
... field of environmental regulation, for example, concepts of risk and safety, methods of compiling and validating data, ideas of causation and blame, and (crucially for biotechnology) even the boundary between “nature” and “culture” have ...
... field, has historically been driven by a faith in the possibility of melioration through imitation.9 Analysts assumed that they could objectively evaluate which agency, nation, or political system was “doing better” at implementing ...
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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 |