Biotechnology : between commerce and civil society /
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New Brunswick, N.J. : London :
Transaction ; [Eurospan, distributor],
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Table of Contents:
- Preface and acknowledgements / Nico Stehr
- Introduction : biotechnology : between commerce and civil society / Nico Stehr
- Pt. I. Biotechnology and civil society : historical and theoretical perspectives
- Introduction : historical perspectives on re-shaping knowledge, re-shaping society / Eugene A. Rosa
- 1. Back to the future with bioliberalism : or, the need to reinvent socialism and social science in the 21st century / Steve Fuller
- 2. Biotechnology, ethics, and the politics of cloning / Steven Best and Douglas Kellner
- 3. Becoming neurochemical selves / Nikolas Rose
- Pt. II. Biotechnology, commerce and civil society : the social construction of biotechnology
- Introduction / Frederick H. Buttel
- 4. Pollution and the use of patents : a reading of Monsanto v. Schmeiser / Javier Lezaun
- 5. Genetics and citizenship / Anne Kerr
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- Peril or promise : news media framing of the biotechnology debate in Europe and the U.S. / Susanna Hornig Priest and Toby Ten Eyck
- Pt. III. Major societal institutions and biotechnology : the law, the state, and the economy
- Introduction / Martin Schulte
- 7. This is about ourselves : or, what makes genetic discrimination interesting / Alexander Somek
- 8. The culture of science in industry and academia : how biotechnologists view science and the public good / Steven P. Vallas, Daniel Kleinman, Abby Kinchy and Raul Necochea
- 9. Human embryonic stem cells, cloning, and the transformation of biopolitics / Herbert Gottweis
- Pt. IV. Biotechnology and civil society : case studies
- Introduction / J. Rogers Hollingsworth
- 10. The Icelandic biogenetic project / Gisli Palsson
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- Comparing the practice of reproductive genetics in Greece, UK, Finland, and The Netherlands : constructing "expert" claims while marking "reproductive" time / Elizabeth Ettorre
- 12. GM policy networks in Asia : a discursive political history of the "doubly green revolution" / Richard Hindmarsh
- Conclusions : shape the body, watch the mind - the brave new world of individualism in the age of biotechnology / Reiner Grundmann.