Sheila Jasanoff

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Can Science Make Sense of Life?Paperback, 22 January 2019

Can Science Make Sense of Life?
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Part of Series
New Human Frontiers
Print Length
156 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Polity Press
Date Published
22 Jan 2019
ISBN-10
1509522719
ISBN-13
9781509522712

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Sheila Jasanoff
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
22 January 2019
Dimensions:
21.34 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
1509522719
ISBN-13:
9781509522712
Language:
English
Pages:
156
Publisher:
Weight:
340.19 gm

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