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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... values in bioethics (europäische Grundwerte in der Bioethik), but politics lurked palpably beneath the surface. Conceived in two parts, with a follow-up scheduled for January 2002, the BBI meeting was a precursor to the German Prologue.
... values. Is an embryo entitled to full protection under constitutional guarantees of human dignity? Do ES cells merit similar consideration? Do German and French experts agree on these points? And what consequences might there be for ...
... values and still remain, meaningfully, a single Europe. In secluded Genshagen, with its complex memories of war and reconciliation, under the improbable rubric of bioethics, participants were deliberating on the constitution of Europe ...
... value in one day.9 In that respect, it was quite unlike the presidential accord of March 1987, when America's Ronald ... values such as citizen participation and governmental accountability in such a transformation, and who will be the ...
... and still remain a viable union? When should national values and political traditions trump policies put forward at the European level? The answers to these questions were worked out in part in discussions of what to 7 PROLOGUE.
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 |