New Genetics, New Social Formations /

New Genetics, New Social Formations / / edited by Peter E. Glasner, Paul Atkinson, Helen Greenslade.

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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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TeilnehmendeR:
Greenslade, Helen,
Atkinson, Paul,
Glasner, Peter E.,
Place / Publishing House:London : : Taylor & Francis,, 2007.
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction: New Genetics, New Social Formations Peter Glasner and Paul Atkinson
  • 2 British Public Attitudes to Agricultural Biotechnology and the 2003 GMN Nation? Public Debate: Distrust, Ambivalence and Risk Nick Pidgeon and Wouter Poortinga
  • 3 The UK stem cell bank: Creating safe stem cell lines and public support? Loes Kater
  • 4 Public Biotechnology Inquiries: From Rationality to Reflexivity Tee Rogers-Hayden and Mavis Jones
  • 5 The Precautionary Principle on Trial: The construction and transformation of the Precautionary Principle in the UK court context Chie Ujita, Liz Sharp and Peter Hopkinson
  • 6 The Social Construction of the Biotech Industry Kean Birch
  • 7 Biopiracy and the Bioeconomy Paul Oldham
  • 8 Identifying John Moore: Narratives of Persona in Patent Law Relating to Inventions of Human Origin Hyo Yoon Kang
  • 9 Sampling policies of Isolates of Historical Interest (IHI): the social and historical formation of research populations in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner
  • 10 The making of scientific knowledge in the anthropological perspective Case studies from the French scientific community Angela Procoli
  • 11 Genomics and the Transformation of Knowledge: the Bioinformatics Challenge Henrik Bruun
  • 12 Science, Media and Society: the framing of bioethical debates around embryonic stem cell research between 2000 and 2005 Jenny Kitzinger, Clare Williams and Lesley Henderson
  • 13 'Natural Forces'
  • The Regulation and Discourse of Genomics and Advanced Medical Technologies in Israel Barbara Prainsack
  • 14 Survival of the Gene? 21st Century Visions from Genomics, Proteomics and the New Biology Ruth McNally and Peter Glasner.

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