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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... moral. With national elections less than a year away, the government's future was on the line, hostage to a stagnant economy, rising unemployment, an aging population with insufficient high-tech skills, and the continuing fiscal burdens ...
... Moral authority to speak about stem cells should not be separated, he implied, from the political authority to speak for the nation on a question of such gravity. The unelected peers, in Jenkins' view, did not possess the necessary ...
... moral status of stem cells are only one of a series of flash points that also include controversies about the risks of transgenic crops, transatlantic battles over the acceptability of genetically modified (GM) foods, discord about the ...
... moral order. Of course, “real” disruptive events happen all the time, such as the birth of the cloned sheep Dolly in Scotland or the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York, and theories of framing do not deny those realities ...
... moral and immoral, safe and risky, god-given and human-made. The molecularization of the life sciences, which enables us both to “read” and to manipulate characteristics beneath the visible surfaces of living entities, poses particular ...
Índice
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13 | |
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 |