Bibliograph

Experiments in democracy, human embryo research and the politics of bioethics, J. Benjamin Hurlbut

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Experiments in democracy, human embryo research and the politics of bioethics, J. Benjamin Hurlbut

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-342) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Experiments in democracy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

947817053

Responsibility statement

J. Benjamin Hurlbut

Sub title

human embryo research and the politics of bioethics

Summary

Human embryo research touches upon strongly felt moral convictions, and it raises such deep questions about the promise and perils of scientific progress that debate over its development has become a moral and political imperative. From in vitro fertilization to embryonic stem cell research, cloning, and gene editing, Americans have repeatedly struggled with how to define the moral status of the human embryo, whether to limit its experimental uses, and how to contend with sharply divided public moral perspectives on governing science. 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. J. Benjamin Hurlbut details how scientists, bioethicists, policymakers, and other public figures have attempted to answer a question of great consequence: how should the public reason about aspects of science and technology that effect fundamental dimensions of human life? Through a study of one of the most significant science policy controversies in the history of the United States, Experiments in Democracy paints a portrait of the complex relationship between science and democracy, and of U.S. society's evolving approaches to evaluating and governing science's most challenging breakthroughs

Table Of Contents

Introduction : the politics of experiment -- New beginnings -- Producing life, conceiving reason -- Representing reason -- Cloning, knowledge, and the politics of consensus -- Confusing deliberation -- In the laboratories of democracy -- Religion, reason, and the politics of progress -- The legacy of experiment

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