Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment
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Category : Biotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment
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Category : Biotechnology
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Author: Robert H. Sprinkle
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9781400821587
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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What happens to a profession that loses the memory of its moral independence? And what happens then to those reliant on its honor, its advocacy, its initiative? In an era of biotechnological adventure, medical audacity, ecological disruption, fiscal strain, and financial temptation, these are urgent questions for all life scientists and for all they serve. Profession of Conscience is an exposition, analysis, and application of a political-ethical tradition in, of, and for the life sciences, from molecular genetics to clinical medicine to environmental biology. The goal is avoidance of the fate of physics--the previous "super science"--whose technological transformations several generations ago so enhanced its political and economic value to governments, societies, and corporations that it lost control of its own conduct. Profession of Conscience discovers within the life sciences a long-evolving profession-specific standard for political action and activism, tracing it from conception in Hellenic and Roman imperial times, through birth and baptism in the Scientific Revolution, then through a naïvely optimistic adolescence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and finally into a self-conscious maturity, solemnized at the Nuremberg Trials but tested ever more subtly since, even down to the present day. The protagonist is a set of ideas. The product is "life-sciences liberalism."

Author: Gary Bryner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000310906
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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This book began several years ago as a project organized by members of the Science and Technology Studies section of the American Political Science Association. It is part of an ongoing attempt by members of the section and others to focus scholarly attention on the political and social implications of technological change and scientific advances. Part of the concern is to identify theories, conceptual frameworks, and concepts from political science that can usefully be applied to the study of science and technology. Part of the concern is to explore how science and technologyrelated concerns help illuminate and test some of the enduring theories of political science. We hope to contribute to the development of a strong theoretical underpinning for science and technology studies. We hope that such an enrichment of the theoretical bases for understanding science and technology-related phenomena will also contribute to more effective and appropriate public policies for regulating and encouraging scientific and technological developments. This book is an attempt to marry theoretical exposition and applied policy inquiry.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture
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Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
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Category : Astronautics and state
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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