Can science make sense of life?
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Can science make sense of life?
Polity, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references ( p. 187-201) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Since 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.
Yet, how far should the capacity to manipulate what life is at the molecular level authorize science to define what life is for? 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.
目次
Prologue
Chapter 1. A New Lens on Life
Chapter 2. Book of Revelations
Chapter 3. Life and Law: Constitutional Turns
Chapter 4. Life in the Gray Zone
Chapter 5. Language Games
Chapter 6. A New Biopower
Chapter 7. Life's Purposes
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