{"product_id":"can-science-make-sense-of-life-hardback-9781509522705","title":"Can Science Make Sense of Life? (Hardback) 9781509522705","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCan Science Make Sense of Life?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSheila Jasanoff (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509522705, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 November 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e156 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.8 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.408 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCan Science Make Sense of Life?\u003c\/i\u003e highlights critical perversions in our present governance of biotechnology: confusions between decoding genetic structures and engineering happiness; conflations of privately profitable patent interests and overall human betterment; and elisions between raw data and techno-optimism’s myth-making capacity. Founder of Harvard’s Science, Technology and Society program, Sheila Jasanoff makes an urgent and eloquent case for restoring broadly democratic humanistic complexity to the governing bodies that govern our bodies.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia Williams, Columbia Law School\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“For those of us concerned with equitable distribution of technology, biodiversity, and the long-term health of the Earth, here is a thoughtful and up-to-date resource from an experienced scholar very close to the exponentially shifting events of risk and hope.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Church, Wyss Institute, Harvard University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This timely and important work is a powerful reminder that we are still in the midst of a scientific revolution that demands shared decision-making regarding the boundary between natural and artificial life — what life is — as well as what life is for.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDoron Weber, The Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An insightful, ambitious and sophisticated overview of the difficulties faced in protecting humanistic understandings of life when they intersect with the understandings of life offered by the post-genetic life sciences.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMetascience​\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science’s growing command over the matter of life. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYet, how far should the capacity to manipulate what life \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e at the molecular level authorize science to define what life is \u003ci\u003efor\u003c\/i\u003e? This book looks at flash points in law, politics, ethics, and culture to argue that science’s promises of perfectibility have gone too far. Science may have editorial control over the material elements of life, but it does not supersede the languages of sense-making that have helped define human values across millennia: the meanings of autonomy, integrity, and privacy; the bonds of kinship, family, and society; and the place of humans in nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements vi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProlouge 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 A New Lens on Life 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 Book of Revelations 37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 Life and Law: Constitutional Turns 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Life in the Gray Zone 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Language Games 117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 A New Biopower 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 Life’s Purposes 169\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes 180\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReferences 187\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex 202\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441789104408,"sku":"9781509522705","price":45.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509522705.jpg?v=1785025292","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/can-science-make-sense-of-life-hardback-9781509522705","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}