Can Science Make Sense of Life? (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
156
Utgivningsdatum
2018-11-30
Förlag
Polity Press
Illustrationer
Black & white illustrations
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218 x 140 x 20 mm
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545 g
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1
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447:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Case Laminate on White w/Matte Lam
ISBN
9781509522705

Can Science Make Sense of Life?

av Sheila Jasanoff
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2018-11-30
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Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science's growing command over the matter of life. Armed with knowledge of the code that governs all living things, biology and biotechnology are poised to edit, even rewrite, the texts of life to correct nature's mistakes. Yet, how far should the capacity to manipulate what life is at the molecular level authorize science to define what life is for? This book looks at flash points in law, politics, ethics, and culture to argue that science's promises of perfectibility have gone too far. Science may have editorial control over the material elements of life, but it does not supersede the languages of sense-making that have helped define human values across millennia: the meanings of autonomy, integrity, and privacy; the bonds of kinship, family, and society; and the place of humans in nature.
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"Can Science Make Sense of Life? highlights critical perversions in our present governance of biotechnology: confusions between decoding genetic structures and engineering happiness; conflations of privately profitable patent interests and overall human betterment; and elisions between raw data and techno-optimism's myth-making capacity. Founder of Harvard's Science, Technology and Society program, Sheila Jasanoff makes an urgent and eloquent case for restoring broadly democratic humanistic complexity to the governing bodies that govern our bodies." Patricia Williams, Columbia Law School "For those of us concerned with equitable distribution of technology, biodiversity, and the long-term health of the Earth, here is a thoughtful and up-to-date resource from an experienced scholar very close to the exponentially shifting events of risk and hope." George Church, Wyss Institute, Harvard University "This timely and important work is a powerful reminder that we are still in the midst of a scientific revolution that demands shared decision-making regarding the boundary between natural and artificial life - what life is - as well as what life is for." Doron Weber, The Washington Post "An insightful, ambitious and sophisticated overview of the difficulties faced in protecting humanistic understandings of life when they intersect with the understandings of life offered by the post-genetic life sciences." Metascience

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Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School

Innehållsförteckning

Prologue Chapter 1. A New Lens on Life Chapter 2. Book of Revelations Chapter 3. Life and Law: Constitutional Turns Chapter 4. Life in the Gray Zone Chapter 5. Language Games Chapter 6. A New Biopower Chapter 7. Life's Purposes

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