A model for communication about biotechnology / / Bev France; John Gilbert.

• Superior document: The Biotechnology Learning Series ; 1
• VerfasserIn: France, Bev,; Gilbert, John,
• TeilnehmendeR: Gilbert, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : Brill | Sense,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: The Biotechnology Learning Series ; 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 100 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This book incorporates two major themes into a model for communication about biotechnology. The first is that of a communicating community, defined as a relatively coherent social group engaging in communication within itself. As biotechnologists do not constitute a unitary group, this book refers t...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Bev France and John K. Gilbert
• Introduction / Bev France and John K. Gilbert
• The need for improved communication about 'modern' biotechnology / Bev France and John K. Gilbert
• Biotechnologists and communication: An enquiry / Bev France and John K. Gilbert
• Building a model: language and the making of meaning / Bev France and John K. Gilbert
• Building a model: Knowledge and risk / Bev France and John K. Gilbert
• The model and a programme of research and development / Bev France and John K. Gilbert
• Acknowledgements / Bev France and John K. Gilbert
• References / Bev France and John K. Gilbert
• Public concerns about…Transgenic Animals / Bev France and John K. Gilbert
• Embryonic stem cells and human therapeutic and reproductive cloning / Bev France and John K. Gilbert
• Environmental impacts of genetically modified organisms / Bev France and John K. Gilbert
• The safety of genetically modified foods / Bev France and John K. Gilbert
• Intellectual Property Protection: Relationship to public perceptions of biotechnology / Bev France and John K. Gilbert.