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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... framing of particular debates at once fed into and was influenced by deeper concerns about national identity at a time of significant geopolitical ferment. The book's third argument, not unrelated to the second, is that political ...
... Framing A good way to begin is by asking how issues are framed for public action in democratic societies. Erving Goffman's path-breaking sociological work showed that there is nothing intrinsic or externally determined about how people ...
... framing do not deny those realities. Rather, framing allows us to see that events do not in and of themselves dictate the pathways along which public responses will move—nor even necessarily provoke any political action.46 Events first ...
... Framing in this way usefully occupies a middle ground between the contingent and the determined. Sociological in its origins, the idea of framing has moved into wider worlds of political analysis, some with specific resonance for this ...
Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States Sheila Jasanoff. frames. Framing, in short, provides an effective way of accommodating the solidity as well as the interpretive flexibility of the worlds in which policy gets made—a ...
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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