UID:
edoccha_9959148377602883
Format:
1 online resource (305 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-16257-X
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1-134-16258-8
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1-280-71047-0
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9786610710478
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0-203-96289-3
Series Statement:
Genetics and society
Content:
New genetic technologies cut across a range of public regulatory domains and private lifeworlds, often appearing to generate an institutional void in response to the complex challenges they pose. As a result, a number of new social formations are being developed to legitimate public engagement and avoid the perceived democratic deficit that may result. Papers in this volume discuss a variety of these manifestations in a global context, including:genetic data bankscommittees of inquirynon-governmental organisations (NGOs)national research labo
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: New genetics, new social formations; 2. British public attitudes to agricultural biotechnology and the 2003 GM Nation? public debate: Distrust, ambivalence and risk; 3. The UK stem cell bank: Creating safe stem cell lines and public support?; 4. Public biotechnology inquiries: From rationality to reflexivity; 5. The precautionary principle on trial: The construction and transformation of the precautionary principle in the UK court context
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6. The social construction of the biotech industry7. Biopiracy and the bioeconomy; 8. Identifying John Moore: Narratives of persona in patent law relating to inventions of human origin; 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; 10. The making of scientific knowledge in the anthropological perspective: Case studies from the French scientific community; 11. Genomics and the transformation of knowledge: The bioinformatics challenge
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12. Science, media and society: The framing of bioethical debates around embryonic stem cell research between 2000 and 200513. 'Natural forces': The regulation and discourse of genomics and advanced medical technologies in Israel; 14. Survival of the gene?: 21st-century visions from genomics, proteomics and the new biology; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-75943-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-39323-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203962893
