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082 0 4 _a344.73095
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aJasanoff, Sheila
_eautore
245 1 0 _aScience at the Bar :
_bLaw, Science, and Technology in America /
_cSheila Jasanoff.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c1995
300 _a1 online resource (303 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aTwentieth Century Fund Books/Reports/Studies
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tForeword --
_tPreface --
_t1 The Intersections of Science and Law --
_t2 Changing Knowledge, Changing Rules --
_t3 The Law's Construction of Expertise --
_t4 The Technical Discourse of Government --
_t5 Law in the Republic of Science --
_t6 Toxic Torts and the Politics of Causation --
_t7 Legal Encounters with Genetic Engineering --
_t8 Family Affairs --
_t9 Definitions of Life and Death --
_t10 Toward a More Reflective Alliance --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aIssues spawned by the headlong pace of developments in science and technology fill the courts. How should we deal with frozen embryos and leaky implants, dangerous chemicals, DNA fingerprints, and genetically engineered animals? The realm of the law, to which beleaguered people look for answers, is sometimes at a loss—constrained by its own assumptions and practices, Sheila Jasanoff suggests. This book exposes American law’s long-standing involvement in constructing, propagating, and perpetuating a variety of myths about science and technology.Science at the Bar is the first book to examine in detail how two powerful American institutions—both seekers after truth—interact with each other. Looking at cases involving product liability, medical malpractice, toxic torts, genetic engineering, and life and death, Jasanoff argues that the courts do not simply depend on scientific findings for guidance—they actually influence the production of science and technology at many different levels. Research is conducted and interpreted to answer legal questions. Experts are selected to be credible on the witness stand. Products are redesigned to reduce the risk of lawsuits. At the same time the courts emerge here as democratizing agents in disputes over the control and deployment of new technologies, advancing and sustaining a public dialogue about the limits of expertise. Jasanoff shows how positivistic views of science and the law often prevent courts from realizing their full potential as centers for a progressive critique of science and technology.With its lucid analysis of both scientific and legal modes of reasoning, and its recommendations for scholars and policymakers, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone who hopes to understand the changing configurations of science, technology, and the law in our litigious society.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Oct 2024)
650 0 _aScience and law.
650 0 _aSciences et droit.
650 0 _aTechnologie et droit.
650 0 _aTechnology and law.
650 7 _aSCIENCE / General.
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700 1 _aLeone, Richard C.
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/9780674039124?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674039124
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