{"product_id":"can-science-make-sense-of-sheila-jasanoff-9781509522705","title":"Can Science Make Sense of Life?","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sheila Jasanoff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1509522700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781509522705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/22\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2019","brand":"Sheila Jasanoff","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935422742783,"sku":"9781509522705","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_41c79674-1c90-4b45-b7e9-f345ce05e25f.jpg?v=1681419709","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/can-science-make-sense-of-sheila-jasanoff-9781509522705","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}