Book ID: 92176
Jasanoff, Sheila
Designs on Nature. Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States. 2007. 3 line drawings. 7 tabs. 392 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.
The author compares the politics and policy of the life sciences inin Britain, Germany, the United States, and in the European Union as awhole. She shows how public and private actors in each setting evaluatednew manifestations of biotechnology and tried to reassure themselves about their safety. Contents (partly): Why Compare?/ ControllingNarratives/ A Question of Europe/ Unsettled Settlements/ Food for Thought/ Natural Mothers and Other Kinds/ Ethical Sense and Sensibility/Making Something of Life/ etc.