Can Science Make Sense of Life?

Informationen zum Autor Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis * 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...

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

Klappentext
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.

Inhalt
* 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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