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9781934137383
Content:
The Body Politic is the first comprehensive history of the significance and struggles over science in America
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Title Page; Praise; ALSO BY JONATHAN D. MORENO; Dedication; Epigraph; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE - SCIENCE IN AMERICA; American Science and the Enlightenment Legacy; The Founders as Scientists; Moral Asylums; The "Internal Improvements" Debate; Evolutionary Philosophy; The Progressive Era; The Progressive Legacy; CHAPTER TWO - THE POLITICS OF HEREDITY; Biology in Politics; Progress Imperfect; Eugenic Sterilization; Liberal Eugenics?; Muscle-bound Biology?; Personalized Genetics; CHAPTER THREE - DANGEROUS IDEAS; The New Biology; Challenging the "Ladder of Nature"
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Enter the BioethicistsWho's in Charge?; The "Invisible College" Redux; Trust in Science; CHAPTER FOUR - THE STEM CELL DEBATE; Let the Debate Begin; Enter the Clones; Stemming Progress?; Behind the Stem Cell Lines; Bioethics in the New Biopolitics; Embryo Ethics; Beyond the Embryo; Stem Cells Abroad; Owning the Idea; CHAPTER FIVE - VALUING HUMANITY; Neoconservative Roots; Rethinking Biotechnology; Problems with Capitalism; The German Philosophers Strike Back; Against Technology; Taking Precautions; All Too Human?; CHAPTER SIX - CROSING LINES; Abortion; Privacy, Power, and End-of-Life Decisions
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The Next Terri Schiavo Case?(Bio)marking Time; Enter the Minotaur; Fusion and Confusion; Crossing Boundaries; Life from Nonlife?; Connecting the Dots; The Shape of Things to Come; CHAPTER SEVEN - IN DEFENSE OF PROGRESS; Science and Progressives; Racing Ahead; Fixed on Science?; Science Surprises; Fire from the Left; Whither Biopolitics?; One Body Politic; REFERENCES; INDEX; Copyright Page
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9781934137468
Additional Edition:
9781934137383
Additional Edition:
Print version The Body Politic : The Battle Over Science in America
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