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Science at the bar : law, science, and technology in America /

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 co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jasanoff, Sheila
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995.
Colección:Twentieth Century Fund Books/Reports/Studies
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The intersections of science and law
  • Changing knowledge, changing rules
  • The law's construction of expertise
  • The technical discourse of government
  • Law in the republic of science
  • Toxic torts and the politics of causation
  • Legal encounters with genetic engineering
  • Family affairs
  • Definitions of life and death
  • Toward a more reflective alliance.