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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
idw - Informationsdienst
Wissenschaft
07/02/2004 - 07/02/2004 | Heidelberg
Referentin: Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
In the past three decades, policy issues connected with advances in the biological sciences have risen to prominence in many industrial nations. These developments offer an unparalleled opportunity to investigate the transformations of democratic politics as contemporary societies move from resource-based to knowledge-based economies. Drawing on a comparison of Germany, Britain, and the United States, I will show how three democratic political cultures have asserted and reinvented themselves in their encounters with biotechnology. Instead of fostering convergence, as determinist theories would have us expect, biotechnology has served as a site for the (re)performance of political culture. Comparative analysis permits us to observe these dynamics in detail, on issues ranging from GM foods to stem cell research. I will develop the concept of civic epistemology to account for cross-national divergences in the framing and resolution of problems of governing biotechnology. In the process, I will highlight the hidden resources of cognitive and political authorization that supplement the formal processes of deliberative democracy in its engagements with science and technology.
Information on participating / attending:
Susanne Späinghaus-Monschau
Science and Society Officer
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European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Meyerhofstrasse 1
69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Tel: +49 (0)6221 387 443
Fax: +49 (0)6221 387 525
E-mail: susanne.monschau@embl.de
Date:
07/02/2004 16:00 - 07/02/2004
Event venue:
Vorlesungssaal Small Operon
EMBL Institut, Meyerhofstraße 1
69117 Heidelberg
Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Target group:
all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
local
Subject areas:
Medicine, Nutrition / healthcare / nursing
Types of events:
Entry:
06/22/2004
Sender/author:
Dr. Annette Tuffs
Department:
Unternehmenskommunikation
Event is free:
unknown
Language of the text:
German
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event11561
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