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Knowledge Politics - Governing the Consequences of Science and Technology (Paperback)
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Knowledge Politics - Governing the Consequences of Science and Technology (Paperback)
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This book argues that new technologies and society's response to
them have created a relatively new phenomenon, "knowledge
politics." Nico Stehr describes Western society's response to a
host of new technologies developed only since the 1970s, including
genetic experiments, test-tube human conception, recombinant DNA,
and embryonic stem cells; genetically engineered foods;
neurogenetics and genetic engineering; and reproductive cloning and
the reconstruction of the human ancestral genome. He looks also at
the prospective fusion of nanotechnology, biotechnology,
information technology, transgenic human engineering, and cognitive
science whose products may, as its boosters claim, some day cure
disease, slow the aging process, eliminate pollution, and generally
enhance human performance. Knowledge Politics shows how human
civilization has reached a new era of concern about the
life-altering potentials of new technologies. Concerns about the
societal consequences of an unfettered expansion of (natural)
scientific knowledge are being raised more urgently and are moving
to the center of disputes in society-- and thus to the top of the
political agenda. Stehr explains the ramifications of knowledge
politics and the approaches society could take to resolve difficult
questions and conflicts over present and future scientific
innovation.
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