| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Genetics and society
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1 Introduction: New genetics, new social formations / PETER GLASNER -- chapter 2 British public attitudes to agricultural biotechnology and the 2003 GM Nation? public debate: Distrust, ambivalence and risk / NICK PIDGEON -- chapter 3 The UK stem cell bank: Creating safe stem cell lines and public support? / LOES KATER -- chapter 4 Public biotechnology inquiries: from rationality to reflexivity / TEE ROGERS-HAYDEN AND MAVIS JONES -- chapter 5 The precautionary principle on trial: The construction and transformation of the precautionary principle in the UK court context / CHIE UJITA -- chapter 6 The social construction of the biotech industry / KEAN BIRCH -- chapter 7 Biopiracy and the bioeconomy / PAUL OLDHAM -- chapter 8 Identifying John Moore: Narratives of persona in patent law relating to inventions of human origin / HYO YOON KANG -- chapter 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 / MARGARET SLEEBOOM-FAULKNER -- chapter 10 The making of scientific knowledge in the anthropological perspective: case studies from the French scientific community / ANGELA PROCOLI -- chapter 11 Genomics and the transformation of knowledge: The bioinformatics challenge / HENRIK BRUUN -- chapter 12 Science, media and society: The framing of bioethical debates around embryonic stem cell research between 2000 and 2005 / JENNY KITZINGER -- chapter 13 'Natural forces': The regulation and discourse of genomics and advanced medical technologies in Israel / BARBARA PRAINSACK -- chapter 14 Survival of the gene? 21st-century visions from genomics, proteomics and the new biology / RUTH MCNALLY. |
| Subject |
Human Genome Project -- Social aspects.
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Human Genome Project. (OCoLC)fst00636031
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Medical genetics -- Social aspects.
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Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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MEDICAL -- Ethics.
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Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00940039
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Medical genetics -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01014146
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Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01354981
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Glasner, Peter E.
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Atkinson, Paul, 1947-
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Greenslade, Helen.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: New genetics, new social formations. London ; New York : Routledge, 2007 041539323X 9780415393232 (DLC) 2006011809 (OCoLC)67405529 |
| ISBN |
9780203962893 (electronic bk.) |
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0203962893 (electronic bk.) |
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