Nature, Risk and Responsibility
Discourses of Biotechnology
Published on 20. January 1999
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Paperback/Softback
X, 232 pages
978-0-333-66588-6 (ISBN)
Description
Nature, Risk and Responsibility explores ethical interpretations of biotechnology and examines whether sufficient consensus exists or is emerging to enable this technology to occupy a stable role in the techno-economic, social and cultural order. The contributors address the nature and prospective implications of biotechnologies for nature, life and social organisation and employ a wide range of social theories to evaluate risks and propose responses.
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Edition
1999
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
X, 232 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
313 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-66588-6 (9780333665886)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-27241-9
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Persons
BARRY BARNES Professor of Sociology, University of Exeter
ALFONS BORA Research Fellow, Wissenschaft Zentrum, Berlin
CHRISTIAN BYK Secretary, International Association of Law, Ethics and Science
GERARD DELANTY Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Liverpool
MARION DREYER Senior Researcher, Munich ProjektGruppe
ORLA MCDONNELL Lecturer in Sociology, University College, Cork
RUTH MCNALLY Research Fellow, University of Exeter and Director of BioInformation Ltd
JOHN MURPHY Lecturer in Law, Manchester University
TRACEY SKILLINGTON Senior Researcher, Centre for European Social Research, Cork
PIET STRYDOM Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University College, Cork
PETER WHEALE Surrey Management School and Director of BioInformation Ltd
Content
Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Biotechnology, Uncertainty and Contestation; P.O'Mahony PART ONE: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS ON BIOTECHNOLOGY AND RESPONSIBILITY The Civilisation of the Gene: Biotechnological Risk Framed in the Responsibility Discourse; P.Strydom Biopolitics in the Risk Society: The Possibility of a Global Ethic of Societal Responsibility; G.Delanty Biotechnology as Expertise; B.Barnes PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING VALUES: PUBLIC COMMUNICATION ON BIOTECHNOLOGY Shifting Debates on New Reproductive Technology: Implications for Public Discourse in Ireland; O.McDonnell Biotechnological Communication and the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Economic Actors; M.Dreyer Constructing Difference: Discourse Coalitions on Biotechnology in the Press; P.O'Mahony and T.Skillington PART THREE: THE DYNAMICS OF INSTITUTIONALISATION: JURIDIFICATION AND REGULATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY Public Representation and the Legal Regulation of Assisted Conception in Britain; J.Murphy Discourse Formations and Constellations of Conflict: Problems of Public Participation in the German Debate on Genetically Altered Plants; A.Bora Law and the Cultural Construction of Nature: The Biotechnology Issue; C.Byk Bio-Patenting and Innovation: Nomads of the Present and a New Global Order; R.McNally and Peter Wheale Concluding Reflections Modernity's Organic Economy of Governmentality; T.Skillington Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgements