摘要 : Sheila Jasanoff’s Designs on Nature is a masterly work of analysisof decades of biotechnology debates and policy making in Europeand the US. The current problem of assimilating knowledge intopublic policy-making in the modern demo... 展开 Sheila Jasanoff’s Designs on Nature is a masterly work of analysisof decades of biotechnology debates and policy making in Europeand the US. The current problem of assimilating knowledge intopublic policy-making in the modern democratic state stems largelyfrom the fact that socially relevant knowledge often appears toocomplex and underdetermined to effectively check the arbitrary useof political power by policy-makers. Furthermore, political powerhas become too diffused, unstable, and elusive to effectively guideand regulate the production and uses of knowledge. The remark-able achievement of Jasanoff in this book consists of her uncannyability to enter this minefield for scholars and deliver such a preciseand clear description of the enormously complex dynamic interac-tion of science and politics while providing her readers with a pre-cious series of insights into the normative and cultural contextsthat help explain this interaction and its outcomes. 收起