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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... risks and benefits of genetic engineering. In Britain, the 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 ...
... risk seemed especially pronounced. Researchers were struck by the open and adversarial processes of rulemaking in the United States, the frequent resort to litigation, and U.S. agencies' significantly greater reliance on formal ...
... regulatory attention in Europe and the United States, biotechnology has given rise to quite different national discourses of risk and safety, naturalness and artificiality, innovation and ownership, constitutional 20 CHAPTER 1.
Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States Sheila Jasanoff. risk and safety, naturalness and artificiality ... risks than policies anywhere in Europe but then shift to greater complacency with regard to biotechnology just a ...
... risk, can fruitfully be seen as a kind of story-telling by communities situated in particular times and places who are attempting to deal with unsettling or disruptive changes in their environments. Stories told in the policy arena ...
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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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