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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765819203321

Autore

Glasner Peter

Titolo

New genetics, new social formations / / Peter Glasner, Paul Atkinson and Helen Greenslade

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2006

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2017

©2007

ISBN

9786610710478

9781134162574

113416257X

9781134162581

1134162588

9781280710476

1280710470

9780203962893

0203962893

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Genetics and society

Classificazione

42.20

Disciplina

174.2/96042

Soggetti

Medical genetics - Social aspects

Genetic engineering - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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