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Can Science Make Sense of Life?
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Can Science Make Sense of Life?

Can Science Make Sense of Life?

Sheila Jasanoff

156 pages, parution le 29/11/2018

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"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"--Nearly seventy years after the discovery of the structure of DNA, and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful new 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 - assisted reproduction, stem cell research, agricultural GMOs, gene drives, creation of synthetic organoids - 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 through millennia of history: the meanings of autonomy, integrity, and privacy; the bonds of kinship, family, and society; and the place of humans in nature.
Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School

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Éditeur(s) Polity press
Auteur(s) Sheila Jasanoff
Parution 29/11/2018
Nb. de pages 156
EAN13 9781509522712

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