Designs on nature : science and democracy in Europe and the United States / Sheila Jasanoff.
Designs on nature : science and democracy in Europe and the United States / Sheila Jasanoff.
Designs on nature : science and democracy in Europe and the United States / Sheila Jasanoff.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N338.926/ 49
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English
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xiii, 374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Why compare? -- Ch. 2. Controlling narratives -- Ch. 3. A question of Europe -- Ch. 4. Unsettled settlements -- Ch. 5. Food for thought -- Ch. 6. Natural mothers and other kinds -- Ch. 7. Ethical sense and sensibility -- Ch. 8. Making something of life -- Ch. 9. The new social contract -- Ch....
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.
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New Jersey
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2005.
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"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 the...
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Designs on nature : science and democracy in Europe and the United States / Sheila Jasanoff.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-359) and index.
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N338.926/ 49
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0691118116 (hbk.) :
9780691118116 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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338.926
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991020095099702626
