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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... gene” function in the world, one has to ask how diverse actors use and understand the concept, how it is articulated through formal and informal practices, where and by whom it is contested, and how it reasserts itself in the face of ...
... genes as we do.55 We can import genes from spinach into pigs, from jellyfish into rabbits, and from fish into tomatoes; the technique of xenotransplantation allows cells from genetically altered pigs or chimpanzees to be inserted into ...
... genes be regarded as inventions for purposes of patent law? Should embryos be seen as persons, property, or some sort of hybrid, partaking of the properties of both? Should people be allowed to “own” their tissues and cells once ...
... gene,” so central to biotechnology, was coined in 1909 by the Danish botanist Wilhelm Johanssen. He wanted a “little word” for the hereditary units that determine the characteristics of organisms in accordance with the principles of ...
... of animal breeding; from another, it suddenly opened a window onto the disturbing possibility of intentionally producing replicas of human beings.77 foreign DNA to be inserted plasmid vector antibiotic resistance gene 34 CHAPTER 1.
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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 |