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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... problem of bioethics centered, after all, on finding agreed upon moral spaces for the new entities brought into the world through developments in genetics, molecular biology, and industrial biotechnology. Embryos and stem cells had to ...
... problem of enlarging its borders without increasing already troubling levels of electoral apathy and distrust. “When a reality TV show attracts more votes than an election,” a British journalist lugubriously observed about European ...
... problems with the understanding of political culture as exotic or foreign. To begin with, even economically and socially integrated Western nations are seen to differ importantly in their reception of science and technology. These ...
... problem is almost the opposite, for here a nation historically tolerant of pollution and technological risk and relatively resistant to institutional innovation has emerged, in some ways, as the most active experiment station for the ...
... problems of coexistence more self-evident. Whose vision of the world should be naturalized or made “real” under these circumstances is of the utmost political and epistemological consequence. The politics of biotechnology, I suggest, is ...
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 |