Experiments in Democracy

An important contribution to the science technology studies (STS) literature on the mechanisms of governance of emerging biotechnologies.

Auteur
J. Benjamin Hurlbut is associate professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University.

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Experiments in Democracy presents a history of American debates over human embryo research from the late 1960s to the present, exploring their crucial role in shaping norms, practices, and institutions of deliberation governing the ethical challenges of modern bioscience.

Contenu
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Politics of Experiment

1. New Beginnings
2. Producing Life
3. Representing Reason
4. Cloning, Knowledge, and the Politics of Consensus
5. Confusing Deliberation
6. In the Laboratories of Democracy
7. Religion, Reason, and the Politics of Progress
8. The Legacy of Experiment
   Notes
   Index