Reconfiguring Nature
Issues and Debates in the New Genetics
Published on 28. March 2004
Book
Hardback
332 pages
978-0-7546-3237-5 (ISBN)
Description
As society comes to grips with the implications of genetic engineering, the mapping and sequencing of the human genome and the advent of the post-genomic era, this collection by an international team of authors should encourage and foster informed discussion of these key issues among the interested public, health and other professionals, teachers and students. Following an introduction discussing what is new about the new genetics, the book's 18 chapters are split into six sections, each with its own introduction and focusing on a different aspect of the biosciences. Topics include: genetic screening, gen-ethics, cloning and xenotransplantation, literacy, public understanding and the media, commerce, industry and patenting, and citizenship in the post-genomic era. The collection contributes to the development of qualitative social science methodology in an area where quantitative methods have proved less fruitful in exploring the contours and nuances of this developing technology.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 237 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-3237-5 (9780754632375)
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Content
Introduction - what's so new about the "new genetics"?, Peter Glasner, Harry Rothman. Literacy, Public Understanding and the Media: The gene shop at Manchester airport, Mairi Levitt; Public understanding of genetic engineering in Germany, Jurgen Hampel; Predictive medicine, genetics and schizophrenia, John Turney, Jill Turner. Commercialization and Health: Pharmacogenetics - implications for drug development, patients and society, Alun McCarthy; The use of large biological sample collections in genetics research - issues for public policy, Paul Martin, Jane Kaye. Gen-ethics - Human Genetic Banking: DNA sampling and banking in clinical genetics and genetic research, Kare Berg; Human genetic banking and the limits of informed consent, Garrath Williams, Doris Schroeder; Regulation and social perceptions of genetic data banking in Germany, Juergen Simon, Susanne Braun. Genetic Screening: Genetic and nongenetic medical information - is there a moral difference in the context of insurance?, Veikko Launis; New practices of screening in the field of cancergenetics - a co-evolutionary perspective, Dirk Stemerding, Annemiek Nelis; Lumping or splitting revisited - or what happens when the new genetics meets disease classification, Adam M. Hedgecoe. Cloning and Xenotransplantation: What we know and what we don't know about cloning and society, Sara Franklin; Containing contradictions - debating nature, controversy and biotechnology, Adam Hedgecoe; Constructing the scientific citizen - science and democracy in the biosciences, Alan Irwin.