Format:
XI, 255 S.
ISBN:
0-8147-3057-4
Content:
It is an article of faith in America that scientific advances will lead to wondrous progress in our daily lives. Americans proudly support scientific research that yields stunning breakthroughs and Nobel prizes. We relish the ensuing debate about the implications - moral, ethical, practical - of these advances. Will genetic engineering change our basic nature? Will artificial intelligence challenge our sense of human uniqueness
Content:
And yet the actual implementation of these technologies is often sluggish and much delayed
Content:
In this controversial book, Steven Goldberg provides a compelling look at the intersection of two of America's most powerful communities - law and science - to explain this apparent contradiction. Rarely considered in tandem, law and science highlight a fundamental paradox in the American character, the struggle between progress and process. Science, with its ethic of endless progress, has long fit beautifully with America's self image
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
Keywords:
Naturwissenschaften
;
Gesetzgebung
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Rechtspolitik
;
Wissenschaftlicher Fortschritt
;
Recht
;
Neue Technologie
;
Recht
