New genetics, new social formations
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 a...
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge
2006.
2017. |
| Series: | Genetics and society (Series)
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429712906719 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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
