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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 the one hand, and more recently, empirical studies of specific deliberative exercises have been carried out, these two discussions fail to speak to one another. §Debates about animal and plant biotechnology are examined as a paradigmatic case for intractable disagreement in today s pluralistic societies. This examination reveals that the disagreements in this debate are multi-faceted and multi-dimensional and can often be traced to fundamental disagreements about values or worldviews. One of the acute insights to emerge from this examination is that deliberation can serve different purposes vis-

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Life sciences: general issues

• Full title: Biotechnology Debate
• Subtitle: Democracy in the Face of Intractable Disagreement
• Author: Bernice Bovenkerk
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9789400726901
• ISBN: 9400726902
• ID: 01979168
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 699 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. January 2012

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