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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... scientific interests of the center-left, Bush announced an uneasy compromise. Federal funds would not be spent on creating new embryonic stem cells, but they could be used to fund research on cell lines that already existed. The news ...
... Scientific knowledge, it is now widely accepted, does not simply accumulate, nor does technology invariably advance benign human interests. Changes in both happen within social parameters that have already been laid down, often long in ...
Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States Sheila Jasanoff. authority of scientific claims is in competition with other representations of reality diffused through the global media, and scientific expertise is subject to ...
... scientific, or technological considerations. Regulation, it emerged, displayed distinctively national characteristics, leading to observable differences in the timing, priorities, forms, and stringency of interventions.15 Scientific ...
... scientific ones, which Geertz (perhaps because he was writing about Indonesia, but perhaps also because he was unconsciously reproducing modernity's foundational nature/culture divide) did not explicitly include in his list. Nor did he ...
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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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