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  title info:
    title: Culture Clash
    sub title: Law and Science in America
  name:
    name part: Goldberg, Steven.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: NYU Press
    date issued: 1994
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
  abstract: It is an article of faith in America that scientific advances will lead to wondrous progress in our daily lives. Americans proudly support scientific research that yields stunning breakthroughs and Nobel prizes. We relish the ensuing debate about the implications--moral, ethical, practical--of these advances. Will genetic engineering change our basic nature? Will artificial intelligence challenge our sense of human uniqueness? And yet the actual implementation of these technologies is often sluggish and much-delayed. From Star Trek to Jurassic Park, the American imagination has always been fasci.
  table of contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE Introduction; TWO Lawyers and Scientists; Progress in Science; The Kuhn Critique; The Limited Role of Practical Applications; Process in Law; The Daubert Case; Defining Terms; THREE The Constitutional Status of Basic Research; The Enlightenment Background; Free Speech for Scientists; Government Support for Science; Science Spending for the General Welfare; The Tension between Freedom and Funding; FOUR The Statutory Framework for Basic Research; Delegation to Agencies of Funding Decisions; The Absence of a Department of Science.
  table of contents: Limits on Executive and Legislative Control of AgenciesThe Virtual Absence of Judicial Review; The Privileged Legal Status of Science; FIVE Science versus Religion in American Law; The Framers Conception of Religion and Science; The Modern Dispute over the Theory of Evolution; Creationism in the Courts; The Growth of Civil Religion; Science, Progress, and Values; SIX Legal Restrictions on New Technology: The Regulatory Gap and the Emergence of the Science Counselor; The Constitutional Basis for Regulating Technology; Statutory Regulation through Delegation to Agencies.
  table of contents: The Stringent Judicial Review of Regulatory DecisionsThe Regulatory Gap; The Case of Nuclear Fission; Computers and Regulation; The Emergence of the Science Counselor; Superconductivity and the Science Counselor; SEVEN The Human Genome Initiative and Human Responsibility; The Development of Modern Genetics; The Political History of the Genome Initiative; Big Science versus Little Science in Genome Research; Science Counselors at Work; The Regulatory Issues Ahead: Gene Therapy and Privacy; Determinism and Human Values; EIGHT Nuclear Fusion: Boundless Optimism and Limited Energy.
  table of contents: The Underlying ScienceThe American Fusion Program; Alternative Approaches to Fusion; The National Environmental Policy Act and Fusion Research; Funding Problems for Fusion; The Solar Comparison and the Dream of Limitless Energy; NINE Artificial Intelligence and the Essence of Humanity; The Origins of Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Life; The Practical Impact of Artificial Intelligence; Consciousness and Human Uniqueness; The Debate over Computer Consciousness: Science versus Science; Consciousness and the Legal Definition of Death; TEN Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Science and law
  subject:
    topic: Research
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Sciences et droit
  subject:
    topic: Recherche
    topic: Droit
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Media Studies
  subject:
    topic: Research
    topic: Law and legislation
  subject:
    topic: Science and law
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: KF4270.G65
  classification: 306.450973
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    title info:
      title: Culture Clash : Law and Science in America
    name:
      name part: Goldberg, Steven.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : NYU Press, ©1994
  identifier: 9780814733486
  identifier: 0814733484
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  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 120402
    record change date: 20240419184811.2
    record identifier: in00004787359
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng