Can Science Make Sense of Life? Jasanoff SheilaPaperback / softback
Can Science Make Sense of Life? Jasanoff SheilaPaperback / softback Nearly seventy years after the discovery of the structure of DNA, and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful new vocabulary has…
Specifikacia Can Science Make Sense of Life? Jasanoff SheilaPaperback / softback
Can Science Make Sense of Life? Jasanoff SheilaPaperback / softback
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. 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. 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?
Science may have editorial control over the material elements of life, but it does not supersede the languages of
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