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...artificially - using in vitro fertilization, for example - and though cloning is just another form of reproduction as far as scientists are concerned, the public is somewhat less phlegmatic about the technology. "You can't lobotomize people's brains to keep their morality from affecting their clinical understanding," said Sheila Jasanoff, a Harvard professor of science and technology studies, at a presentation about cloned meat at last weekend's American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Boston...
...According to Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies Sheila Jasanoff ’64, the uncertainty about what the future holds in store is a motivating factor behind the teaching of these theories. “We don’t know how fast these climate changes are going to happen,” she says. “The margin of uncertainty about any of these problems is great enough that we could be very badly surprised.” The fact that our lens into the future is cloudy provides an impetus to teach these ideas...
...students enjoy the haphazard approach, although many complain that there seems to be no core knowledge that is learned in the class. The only other required departmental course, after junior tutorial and senior thesis seminars, is ESPP 78, “Environmental Politics,” taught by Sheila Jasanoff. However, while ESPP does not have many departmental courses, students in the concentration have found that courses such as EPS 7, “Introduction to Geological Science,” sand Economics 1661, “Environmental Economics,” tend to be tailored specifically for ESPP concentrators...
Also yesterday, the chair of the anthropology department, Arthur M. Kleinman, who is a member of the Faculty’s 19-member governing council, said of the Corporation: “I haven't heard from them.” The Linguistics Department chair, Jay Jasanoff, said he had not been contacted either...
Tomas O Cathasaigh, Tom Cummins, Cynthia Friend, Andrew Gordon, Jay Jasanoff, James Kloppenberg, James McCarthy, Christie McDonald, Ingrid Monson, Richard Moran, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Steve Owen, Judith Ryan, Kay Shelemay, Richard Thomas, Mary Waters, Jan Ziolkowski