ISBN:
9781351323031
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (387 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Stehr, Nico Biotechnology : Between Commerce and Civil Society
DDC:
306.46
Keywords:
Biotechnology industries
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society -- Part I Biotechnology and Civil Society: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives -- Introduction: Historical Perspectives on Re-Shaping Knowledge, Re-Shaping Society -- 1. Back to the Future with Bioliberalism: Or, the Need to Reinvent Socialism and Social Science in the 21st Century -- 2. Biotechnology, Ehics, and the Politics of Cloning -- 3. Becoming Neurochemical Selves -- Part II Biotechnology, Commerce and Civil Society: The Social Construction of Biotechnology -- Introduction -- 4. Pollution and the Use of Patents: A Reading of Monsanto v. Schmeiser -- 5. Genetics and Citizenship -- 6. Peril or Promise: News Media Framing of the Biotechnology Debate in Europe and the U.S. -- Part III Major Societal Institutions and Biotechnology: The Law, the State, and the Economy -- Introduction -- 7. This is About Ourselves: Or, What Makes Genetic Discrimination Interesting -- 8. The Culture of Science in Industry and Academia: How Biotechnologists View Science and the Public Good -- 9. Human Embryonic Stem Cells, Cloning, and the Transformation of Biopolitics -- Part IV Biotechnology and Civil Society: Case Studies -- Introduction -- 10. The Icelandic Biogenetic Project -- 11. Comparing the Practice of Reproductive Genetics in Greece, UK, Finland, and The Netherlands: Constructing "Expert" Claims while Marking "Reproductive" Time -- 12. GM Policy Networks in Asia: A Discursive Political History of the "Doubly Green Revolution" -- Conclusions: Shape the Body, Watch the Mind-The Brave New World of Individualism in the Age of Biotechnology -- About the Authors -- Name Index -- Subject Index
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