Research Catalog

Title

Designs on nature : science and democracy in Europe and the United States / Sheila Jasanoff.

Author

Jasanoff, Sheila.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xiii, 374 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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." "In this look at some twenty-five years of scientific and social development, Sheila Jasanoff compares the politics and policy of the life sciences in Britain, Germany, the United States, and the European Union as a whole. She shows how public and private actors in each setting evaluated new manifestations of biotechnology and tried to reassure themselves about their safety."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Democracy and science > Europe
• Democracy and science > United States

Note

• Paperback published, 2007.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-359) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Why compare? -- Controlling narratives -- A question of Europe -- Unsettled settlements -- Food for thought -- Natural mothers and other kinds -- Ethical sense and sensibility -- Making something of life -- The new social contract -- Civic epistemology -- Republics of science.

ISBN

• 0691118116 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0691130426 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004055296

OCLC

• 55885457
• SCSB-10053238

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library