Can science make sense of life? / Sheila Jasanoff
By: Jasanoff, Sheila [author.].
Series: Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, ©2019Description: 208 p: 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509522705; 1509522700; 9781509522712; 1509522719.Subject(s): Science -- Philosophy | Meaning (Philosophy) | LifeGenre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | Q175.32.M43 J37 2019 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000015873 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index
A new lens on life -- Book of revelations -- Life and law : constitutional turns -- Life in the gray zone -- Language games -- A new biopower -- Life's purposes
"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"--