New genetics, new social formations /

New genetics, new social formations / edited by Peter Glasner, Paul Atkinson and Helen Greenslade. - 1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages)

chapter 1 Introduction: New genetics, new social formations / chapter 2 British public attitudes to agricultural biotechnology and the 2003 GM Nation? public debate: Distrust, ambivalence and risk / chapter 3 The UK stem cell bank: Creating safe stem cell lines and public support? / chapter 4 Public biotechnology inquiries: from rationality to reflexivity / chapter 5 The precautionary principle on trial: The construction and transformation of the precautionary principle in the UK court context / chapter 6 The social construction of the biotech industry / chapter 7 Biopiracy and the bioeconomy / chapter 8 Identifying John Moore: Narratives of persona in patent law relating to inventions of human origin / chapter 9 Sampling policies of isolates of historical interest: The social and historical formation of research populations in the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China / chapter 10 The making of scientific knowledge in the anthropological perspective: case studies from the French scientific community / chapter 11 Genomics and the transformation of knowledge: The bioinformatics challenge / chapter 12 Science, media and society: The framing of bioethical debates around embryonic stem cell research between 2000 and 2005 / chapter 13 'Natural forces': The regulation and discourse of genomics and advanced medical technologies in Israel / chapter 14 Survival of the gene? 21st-century visions from genomics, proteomics and the new biology / PETER GLASNER -- NICK PIDGEON -- LOES KATER -- TEE ROGERS-HAYDEN AND MAVIS JONES -- CHIE UJITA -- KEAN BIRCH -- PAUL OLDHAM -- HYO YOON KANG -- MARGARET SLEEBOOM-FAULKNER -- ANGELA PROCOLI -- HENRIK BRUUN -- JENNY KITZINGER -- BARBARA PRAINSACK -- RUTH MCNALLY.

9780203962893 9781134162536 9781134162574 9781134162581

10.4324/9780203962893 doi


Human Genome Project--Social aspects.


Medical genetics--Social aspects.
Genetic engineering--Moral and ethical aspects.

QH438.7 / .G55 2007

174.296042 / N532