Our lines of ongoing inquiry:
Category formation in the natural and physical sciences:
- How do new forms of technoscience, such as genomics, reconstruct
notions of race, gender, and sexuality?
Democratizing Science:
- How does science get done? Who is included? Who is excluded? Who
should be included/excluded?
- How can “the public” in of science institutions’
public engagement efforts be defined?
Re-Framing Bioethics:
- What are the limitations of a bioethics formed around the principle
of “individual autonomy”?
- What other forms of bioethics might we imagine?
New forms of property:
- What in practice can be owned? a gene? genetic
information? an application of genetic information? if an
application, what counts as “an application”?
- Who can be an owner? What is the distinction between an owner
and an inventor?
- What new forms of property are emerging that might foster the goals
of social justice?
The Meaning of Justice
- How do scientific practices and innovations affect notions of
justice and accountability?
- Conversely, how do notions of justice and accountability shape how
we conceive of and practice science?
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