Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Harry Kunneman and Peter Derkx -- Part 1: Complexity Theory, Social Constructionism and Hermeneutics -- 1. Paul Cilliers: A Crisis of Knowledge: Complexity, Understanding and the Problem of Responsible Action -- 2. Erica Haimes: The Contributions of Social Constructionism to the Study of the Ethical, Social and Political Aspects of the Life Sciences -- 3. Cees Pieters: Engineering, Humanistics and the Lingua Democratica: on Cross-Disciplinary Communications between 'Strange Bedfellows' -- 4. Harry Kunneman: Ethical Complexity, Hermeneutics and Mode 3 Knowledge -- Part 2: Ethics and Worldviews -- 5. Cor van der Weele: Morality and Genomics: Which Comes First? Towards Cooperative Inquiry -- 6. Andries De Smet, Sigrid Sterckx and Julian Cockbain: The Lack of Access to Medicines and the Health Impact Fund Scheme -- 7. Fernando Suárez Müller: Human Rights and Transhumanism: is a Humanist Transhumanism Possible? -- 8. Tatjana Kochetkova: The Spiritual Dimension of Human Enhancement: Remarks concerning the Discussion about Immortality -- 9. Peter Derkx: Worldviews, Genomics and Enhanced Human Lifespan -- Part 3: Corporations, Governments and Democracy -- 10. Alle Bruggink: The Influence of Government and Industry on Technological Research in the Netherlands: a Personal Experience -- 11. Anders Nordgren: Consumer Genomics Companies and Their Appeal to Empowerment -- 12. Michiel Korthals: Fundamental Uncertainty as an Issue for Deliberative Democracy -- 13. Guido Ruivenkamp and Joost Jongerden: From Prescription to Reconstruction: Opportunities for Subpolitical Choices in Biotechnological and Genomics Research -- 14. Marli Huijer: Storytelling as a Way to Enrich Democratic Discussion: The Dutch Debate on Embryo Selection for Hereditary Breast Cancer -- About the Authors -- Subject Index.