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Can Science Make Sense of Life?
Series: New Human Frontiers
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Ideal for readers interested in bioethics, science and society, legal scholars, policymakers, and anyone engaged in debates about the implications of genetic science and biotechnology on human values and social structures.
"Nearly 70 years after the dawn of the genetic age, biotechnology, scientists proclaim, is poised to rewrite the book of life. Yet, how far can science go in making sense of what "life" means to human beings and societies? This book looks at flash points in law, politics, ethics, and culture to argue that the claims of rewriting life are overblown"--
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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? Can Science Make Sense of Life? 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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Praised by Patricia Williams of Columbia Law School for highlighting critical governance issues in biotechnology, this book exposes confusions between genetic data and social goals, urging a return to democratic complexity in policymaking. George Church of Harvard University endorses it as a thoughtful, current resource for those concerned with technology's equitable distribution and Earth’s health. The work is recognised as a crucial reminder of the ongoing scientific revolution demanding shared decision-making about life’s nature.
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ISBN: 9781509522712
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 November 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polity Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 137.0mm
Height: 213.0mm
Weight: 318g
Pages: 156
About the Author
Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School
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