ABSTRACT
This part introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the next subsequent chapter. The part begins with the observation that developments in modern medicine, especially reproductive medicine, transplantation medicine, and genetic technology, have turned the human body into the object of theoretically limitless possibilities for manipulation. It addresses the question of how a regulation of science could be envisaged from within science, by developing a form of knowledge that already implies a moral respect for nature. The part explains once ethics and knowledge have become separated, there is no way of regaining control from within science. It shows that science's applications be subject to external control, especially so as not to interfere with the promotion of alternative, so-called indigenous knowledges. The part addresses die problem of governance of knowledge from another angle. It provides the debates over whether knowledge producers should govern themselves or be subject to external control.
