Sheila Jasanoff

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Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Science and statistical victim: modernizing knowledge in breast implant litigation
    Sheila Jasanoff
    School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Soc Stud Sci 32:37-69. 2002
  2. ncbi The life sciences and the rule of law
    Sheila Jasanoff
    Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Mol Biol 319:891-9. 2002
  3. ncbi In the democracies of DNA: ontological uncertainty and political order in three states
    Sheila Jasanoff
    Harvard University, John F Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    New Genet Soc 24:139-55. 2005
  4. ncbi Just evidence: the limits of science in the legal process
    Sheila Jasanoff
    John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, USA
    J Law Med Ethics 34:328-41. 2006
  5. ncbi Technologies of humility
    Sheila Jasanoff
    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Nature 450:33. 2007
  6. ncbi Law's knowledge: science for justice in legal settings
    Sheila Jasanoff
    John F Kennedy School of Government, School of Public Health, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, 79 JFK Street, Room L354, Boston, MA, USA
    Am J Public Health 95:S49-58. 2005
  7. ncbi Representation and re-presentation in litigation science
    Sheila Jasanoff
    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 5801, USA
    Environ Health Perspect 116:123-9. 2008
  8. ncbi Constitutional moments in governing science and technology
    Sheila Jasanoff
    John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    Sci Eng Ethics 17:621-38. 2011

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Publications8

  1. ncbi Science and statistical victim: modernizing knowledge in breast implant litigation
    Sheila Jasanoff
    School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Soc Stud Sci 32:37-69. 2002
    ..While these transformations may hasten the processing of cases, the paper questions whether the courts can legitimately take on board the issues of risk and social justice in contemporary industrial societies...
  2. ncbi The life sciences and the rule of law
    Sheila Jasanoff
    Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    J Mol Biol 319:891-9. 2002
  3. ncbi In the democracies of DNA: ontological uncertainty and political order in three states
    Sheila Jasanoff
    Harvard University, John F Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    New Genet Soc 24:139-55. 2005
    ..The comparison shows that public responses to biotechnology are embedded within robust and coherent political cultures and are not ad hoc expressions of concern that very unpredictably from issue to issue...
  4. ncbi Just evidence: the limits of science in the legal process
    Sheila Jasanoff
    John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, USA
    J Law Med Ethics 34:328-41. 2006
  5. ncbi Technologies of humility
    Sheila Jasanoff
    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Nature 450:33. 2007
  6. ncbi Law's knowledge: science for justice in legal settings
    Sheila Jasanoff
    John F Kennedy School of Government, School of Public Health, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, 79 JFK Street, Room L354, Boston, MA, USA
    Am J Public Health 95:S49-58. 2005
    ..The important question for the law is not how judges can best do justice to science, but rather how courts can better render justice under conditions of uncertainty and ignorance...
  7. ncbi Representation and re-presentation in litigation science
    Sheila Jasanoff
    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 5801, USA
    Environ Health Perspect 116:123-9. 2008
    ..An unreflective application of that approach thus puts courts at risk of relying upon a "junk science" of the nature of scientific knowledge...
  8. ncbi Constitutional moments in governing science and technology
    Sheila Jasanoff
    John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    Sci Eng Ethics 17:621-38. 2011
    ..New rules for public engagement in the United Sates should take account of these historical developments and seek to counteract some of the anti-democratic tendencies observable in recent decades...