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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... important point, van den Daele argued, was that Britain's decision had been reached by democratic means in an open society; it was the process, not the particular outcome, that conferred legitimacy. But politics ran deeper at the ...
... important. Religious viewpoints had to be represented, for instance, along with legal and cultural expertise, and the secular, progressive imagination of science.3 At issue as well was the degree of internal dissension that Europe could ...
... important form of capital. State policies, correspondingly, are geared more and more toward nurturing and exploiting knowledge, with scientific knowledge and technical expertise commanding the highest premiums. These far-reaching ...
... important part of the reason. It follows that important aspects of political behavior and action cluster around the ways in which knowledge is generated, disputed, and used to underwrite collective decisions. It is no longer possible to ...
... important locus of difference is in the systematic practices by which a nation's citizens come to know things in common and to apply their knowledge to the conduct of politics. I term these culturally specific ways of knowing “civic ...
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 |