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