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Can Science Make Sense of Life? - Couverture rigide

Jasanoff, Sheila

 
9781509522705: Can Science Make Sense of Life?
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1509522700 ISBN 13 : 9781509522705
Editeur : Polity Press, 2018

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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

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Éditeur
Polity Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1509522700
ISBN 13 
9781509522705
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
156
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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