""Designs on Nature" is a brilliant book that represents a major
contribution to a vast and growing literature on biotechnology and
bioethics. Professor Jasanoff tackles a complex topic with ease and
humor that will appeal to students, scholars, and decision makers.
There is nothing else available that comes close to her rich and
detailed analysis."--Paulette Kurzer, University of Arizona, author
of "Markets and Moral Regulation"
"Jasanoff provides an excellent guide to the public and
political issues arising from biotechnology while also addressing
the wider context of scientific governance and what has become
known as the 'public understanding of science.' She makes a
powerful and persuasive case both for the social and political
significance of biotechnology and for a specific form of scholarly
analysis that is both theoretically informed and empirically aware.
Highly readable and very informative for those who have little
background knowledge of these issues (and indeed for those with
substantial background), this book will become the standard text on
the political management of biotechnology and the politics of
science and technology more broadly."--Alan Irwin, University of
Liverpool, author of "Sociology and the Environment and Citizen
Science"
"Using the interdisciplinary resources of Science and Technology
Studies in an intellectually subtle, rigorous, and empirically
sensitive way across three different national arenas, Sheila
Jasanoff here provides an unequalled comparative perspective on the
common yet differential struggles of modern political cultures and
their institutions to get to grips with the challenges of
controlling biological scientific knowledge practicesin the public
interest. She deftly exposes and insightfully explores the twin
projects wherein modern scientific knowledge and its institutional
and cultural contexts tacitly coproduce each other, whilst
constructing the domains of scientific knowledge and cultural
politics as if categorically distinct. A further key twist is
provided by Jasanoff in the exposure of the tacit processes whereby
policy and scientific institutions at the same time produce
imagined idioms of their respective publics and democratic cultural
arenas. This book offers crucial resources, and challenges, to
several disciplines, notably political science, public law,
anthropology, policy analysis and sociology--not to mention to the
life sciences themselves."--Brian Wynne, Lancaster University
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