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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... knowledge, with scientific knowledge and technical expertise commanding the highest premiums. These far-reaching alterations in the nature and distribution of resources, and in the roles of science, industry, and the state, could hardly ...
... for centuries as instruments of social progress and personal liberation. Yet, as scientific knowledge becomes more closely aligned with economic and political power, producing new expert elites, the distance between the governors 5 ...
... knowledge societies is, of course, an 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 ...
... 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 common economic and social challenges, and the fact that these ...
... knowledge to the conduct of politics. I term these culturally specific ways of knowing “civic epistemologies” and discuss them in detail in chapter 10. How democratic polities acquire communal knowledge for purposes of collective action ...
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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 |