Reconfiguring Nature

Reconfiguring Nature

Issues and Debates in the New Genetics

Glasner, Peter

Taylor & Francis Ltd

03/2004

332

Dura

Inglês

9780754632375

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.
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.
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