Culture Clash: Law and Science in America

by Steven Goldberg

Overview

Law and Science in America: 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. This book reveals one of themost importtn and defining conflicts in contemporary American life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814732540
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	09/01/1994
Series:	Open Access Lib and HC
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	270
Sales rank:	253,573
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Steven Goldberg is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is the author of Culture Clash: Law and Science in America, winner of the Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award, also available from NYU Press.

Editorial Reviews

Goldberg (law, Georgetown U.) examines two of this country's most powerful institutions to highlight a fundamental paradox in the American character, the struggle between progress and process. He exposes how the legal system both supports and restricts science and technology, and considers the role and future of three projects-- artificial intelligence, nuclear fusion, and the human genome initiative--to argue for a scientific vision that infuses research with social goals. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"Culture Clashwith its rare blend of creativity, verbal skill and balanced judgement—helps to clarify the understanding of law and science in American life."

New York Law Journal

"One of the most vital interdisciplinary works of this generation. A trenchant, thought-provoking, and immensely readable analysis of the important issues at the intersection of law, science, and morality. Goldberg, perhaps the most prominent and certainly the most prolific legal scholar in the law and science field, explores the most contemporary topics at the frontiers of current scientific, technological, legal, and moral inquiry. An accomplished and important book."

Nancy Levit

"Draws on more than a decade's work to bring together in one place a remarkably broad treatment of the relationship between law and science. All of the well-known issues are addressed: the legal questions likely to arise from current research aimed at mapping the human genome, the legal debates over the public schools' treatment of creationism and evolution, the effect of federal agency practices on the course of scientific research, and the use of scientific evidence in legal disputes...Certain to enrich all future discussion of these topics."

Ira Mark Ellman

"A lucid and entertaining mix of constitutional law and history."

American Journal of Human Genetics