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Biologia
"An engaging, insightful, and challenging call to examine both the rhetoric and reality of innovation and inclusion in science and science policy." Daniel R. Morrison, American Journal of Sociology
Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates devolve to simple judgmentsgood or bad, life-saving medicine or bioethical nightmare, symbol of human ingenuity or our fall from graceignoring the people affected. With this book, Ruha Benjamin moves the terms of debate to focus on the shifting relationship between science and society, on the people who benefitor don'tfrom regenerative medicine and what this says about our democratic commitments to an equitable society.
People's Science uncovers the tension between scientific innovation and social equality, taking the reader inside California's 2004 stem cell initiative, the first of many state referenda on scientific research, to consider the lives it has affected. Benjamin reveals the promise and peril of public participation in science, illuminating issues of race, disability, gender, and socio-economic class that serve to define certain groups as more or less deserving in their political aims and biomedical hopes.
Ultimately, Ruha Benjamin argues that without more deliberate consideration about how scientific initiatives can and should reflect a wider array of social concerns, stem cell researchfrom African Americans' struggle with sickle cell treatment to the recruitment of women as tissue donorsstill risks excluding many. Even as regenerative medicine is described as a participatory science for the people, Benjamin asks us to consider if "the people" ultimately reflects our democratic ideals.
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