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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1995.
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| 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.