Lecture: Social Genomics and the Politics of Food Choice

presents

A Lecture by

Rachelle Hollander

Thursday, April 6

EESAT 110

7:30 p.m.

Lecture is free and open to the public.

For special accommodation, call 565-2266.

Social
Genomics
and the
Politics of
Food
Choice

Research in philosophy and in the social and behavioral sciences tell us that social controversies involving science and technology are complex and ill-structured and that issues of noneconomic values and political and individual rights need to be addressed. Because findings from the natural and physical sciences and engineering are likely to play only a limited role in resolving these social issues, care needs to be taken that they do not preempt social deliberation and decision. Genomic controversies illustrate these points.

Hollander manages the Methods, Cross-Directorate, and Science and Society cluster in the Division of Social and Economic Sciences, and directs the Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology (SDEST) Program of the National Science Foundation. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and is the coeditor of Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management (Oxford., 1991).

CEP - PHIL - UNT - April 29, 2000

	Research in philosophy and in the social and behavioral sciences tell us that social controversies involving science and technology are complex and ill-structured and that issues of noneconomic values and political and individual rights need to be addressed. Because findings from the natural and physical sciences and engineering are likely to play only a limited role in resolving these social issues, care needs to be taken that they do not preempt social deliberation and decision. Genomic controversies illustrate these points.

	Hollander manages the Methods, Cross-Directorate, and Science and Society cluster in the Division of Social and Economic Sciences, and directs the Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology (SDEST) Program of the National Science Foundation. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and is the coeditor of *Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management* (Oxford., 1991).