The Biotechnology Debate Democracy in the Face of Intractable Disagreement /

• Main Author: Bovenkerk, Bernice (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, 29
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Political science.; Ethics.; Animal genetics.; Environmental engineering.; Biotechnology.; Sociology.; Political Science.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology.; Sociology, general.

This book grounds deliberative democratic theory in a more refined understanding of deliberative practice, in particular when dealing with intractable moral disagreement regarding novel technologies. While there is an ongoing, vibrant debate about the theoretical merits of deliberative democracy on...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Biotechnology: An Anatomy of the Debate
• 3. Constraining or Enabling Dialogue?
• 4. Deliberative Democracy and its Limits
• 5. Committees: The Politics of Containment
• 6. Consensus Conferences: The Politics of Containment.