LEADER 04021nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910461141703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-13337-7 010 $a9786613133373 010 $a1-4008-3731-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400837311 035 $a(CKB)2670000000095256 035 $a(EBL)713600 035 $a(OCoLC)730151760 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000521975 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11336234 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521975 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10524184 035 $a(PQKB)11190258 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC713600 035 $a(OCoLC)773584591 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43174 035 $a(DE-B1597)453600 035 $a(OCoLC)979749575 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400837311 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL713600 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10477123 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL313337 035 $a(OCoLC)733057494 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000095256 100 $a20040630d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDesigns on nature$b[electronic resource] $escience and democracy in Europe and the United States /$fSheila Jasanoff 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (391 p.) 300 $a"Fourth printing, and first paperback printing, 2007." 311 $a0-691-11811-6 311 $a0-691-13042-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWhy 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. 330 $aBiology 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 magisterial 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 in 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. Three main themes emerge. First, core concepts of democratic theory, such as citizenship, deliberation, and accountability, cannot be understood satisfactorily without taking on board the politics of science and technology. Second, in all three countries, policies for the life sciences have been incorporated into "nation-building" projects that seek to reimagine what the nation stands for. Third, political culture influences democratic politics, and it works through the institutionalized ways in which citizens understand and evaluate public knowledge. These three aspects of contemporary politics, Jasanoff argues, help account not only for policy divergences but also for the perceived legitimacy of state actions. 606 $aDemocracy and science$zEurope 606 $aDemocracy and science$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDemocracy and science 615 0$aDemocracy and science 676 $a338.9/26 700 $aJasanoff$b Sheila$0265884 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461141703321 996 $aDesigns on nature$926376 997 $aUNINA