Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Lawyers and Scientists | p. 6 |
Progress in Science | p. 7 |
The Kuhn Critique | p. 9 |
The Limited Role of Practical Applications | p. 11 |
Process in Law | p. 13 |
The Daubert Case | p. 20 |
Defining Terms | p. 23 |
The Constitutional Status of Basic Research | p. 26 |
The Enlightenment Background | p. 26 |
Free Speech for Scientists | p. 28 |
Government Support for Science | p. 31 |
Science Spending for the General Welfare | p. 35 |
The Tension between Freedom and Funding | p. 39 |
The Statutory Framework For Basic Research | p. 44 |
Delegation to Agencies of Funding Decisions | p. 44 |
The Absence of a Department of Science | p. 48 |
Limits on Executive and Legislative Control of Agencies | p. 49 |
The Virtual Absence of Judicial Review | p. 54 |
The Privileged Legal Status of Science | p. 62 |
Science versus Religion in American Law | p. 69 |
The Framers' Conception of Religion and Science | p. 69 |
The Modern Dispute over the Theory of Evolution | p. 72 |
Creationism in the Courts | p. 75 |
The Growth of Civil Religion | p. 79 |
Science, Progress, and Values | p. 81 |
Legal Restrictions on New Technology: The Regulatory Gap and the Emergence of the Science Counselor | p. 84 |
The Constitutional Basis for Regulating Technology | p. 84 |
Statutory Regulation through Delegation to Agencies | p. 87 |
The Stringent Judicial Review of Regulatory Decisions | p. 90 |
The Regulatory Gap | p. 94 |
The Case of Nuclear Fission | p. 96 |
Computers and Regulation | p. 99 |
The Emergence of the Science Counselor | p. 103 |
Superconductivity and the Science Counselor | p. 108 |
The Human Genome Initiative and Human Responsibility | p. 112 |
The Development of Modern Genetics | p. 112 |
The Political History of the Genome Initiative | p. 118 |
Big Science versus Little Science in Genome Research | p. 121 |
Science Counselors at Work | p. 123 |
The Regulatory Issues Ahead: Gene Therapy and Privacy | p. 124 |
Determinism and Human Values | p. 128 |
Nuclear Fusion: Boundless Optimism and Limited Energy | p. 131 |
The Underlying Science | p. 131 |
The American Fusion Program | p. 134 |
Alternative Approaches to Fusion | p. 136 |
The National Environmental Policy Act and Fusion Research | p. 139 |
Funding Problems for Fusion | p. 144 |
The Solar Comparison and the Dream of Limitless Energy | p. 145 |
Artificial Intelligence and the Essense of Humanity | p. 151 |
The Origins of Artificial Intelligence | p. 151 |
Artificial Life | p. 151 |
The Practical Impact of Artificial Intelligence | p. 154 |
Consciousness and Human Uniqueness | p. 155 |
The Debate over Computer Consciousness: Science versus Science | p. 158 |
Consciousness and the Legal Definition of Death | p. 166 |
Conclusion | p. 178 |
Notes | p. 185 |
Bibliography | p. 233 |
Index | p. 251 |
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