Neurogenetic Diagnoses

Carole H Browner, Mabel H Preloran

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• As world populations continue to age, the incidence of very common, ultimately fatal neurodegenerative diseases (some of medicine's most puzzling illn... Lees meer

Human Cloning in the Media

Joan Haran, Jenny Kitzinger, Maureen McNeil, Kate O'Riordan

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• This book examines the making of human cloning as an imaginary practice and scientific fact. It explores the controversies surrounding both 'therapeut... Lees meer

Neurogenetic Diagnoses

Carole H Browner, H Mabel Preloran

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• As world populations continue to age, the incidence of very common, ultimately fatal neurodegenerative diseases (some of medicine's most puzzling illn... Lees meer

Cybergenetics

Anna Harris, Susan Kelly, Sally Wyatt

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Online genetic testing services are increasingly being offered to consumers who are becoming exposed to, and knowledgeable about, new kinds of genetic... Lees meer

Genetic Testing

Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Srikant Sarangi, Angus Clarke

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Advances in molecular genetics have led to the increasing availability of genetic testing for a variety of inherited disorders. While this new knowled... Lees meer

Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology

Joseph Murphy, Les Levidow

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Delays in approving genetically modified crops and foods in the European Union have led to a high profile trade conflict with the United States. This ... Lees meer

Knowing New Biotechnologies

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• The areas of personal genomics and citizen science draw on - and bring together - different cultures of producing and managing knowledge and meaning. ... Lees meer

Community Genetics and Genetic Alliances

Aviad E Raz

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Carrier testing of adults provides information about the risk of passing a genetic mutation to your children, leading to reproductive (and some say, e... Lees meer

GM Food on Trial

Les Levidow, Susan Carr

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Europe was told that it had no choice but to accept agbiotech, yet this imperative was turned into a test of democratic accountability for societal ch... Lees meer

Science and Democracy

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• In the life sciences and beyond, new developments in science and technology and the creation of new social orders go hand in hand. In short, science a... Lees meer

Science and Democracy

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• In the life sciences and beyond, new developments in science and technology and the creation of new social orders go hand in hand. In short, science a... Lees meer

The International Legal Governance of the Human Genome

Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• The human genome is a well known symbol of scientific and technological progress in the twenty-first century. However, concerns about the exacerbation... Lees meer

GM Food on Trial

Les Levidow, Susan Carr

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Europe was told that it had no choice but to accept agbiotech, yet this imperative was turned into a test of democratic accountability for societal ch... Lees meer

Controlling Pharmaceutical Risks

John Abraham, Rachel Ballinger

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Controlling Pharmaceutical Risks is a case study of changes in drug testing since the late 1990s, specifically geneticization of carcinogenic risk ass... Lees meer

Regenerating Bodies

Julie Kent

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• This exciting book examines how human tissues and cells are being exchanged, commodified and commercialized by new health technologies. Through a disc... Lees meer

Psychiatric Genetics

Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Andrew Bartlett, Jamie Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Psychiatric genetics has become 'Big Biology'. This may come as a surprising development to those familiar with its controversial history. From eugeni... Lees meer

Gender and Genetics

Kate Reed

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Prenatal screening for genetic disorders has become increasingly widespread in the UK. This book gives a unique and systematic analysis of the gendere... Lees meer

The Matrix of Stem Cell Research

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Stem cell research has been a problematic endeavour. For the past twenty years it has attracted moral controversies in both the public and the profess... Lees meer

The GM Debate

Tom Horlick-Jones, John Walls, Gene Rowe

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• This book tells the story of an unprecedented experiment in public participation: the government-sponsored debate on the possible commercialization of... Lees meer

Barcoding Nature

Claire Waterton, Rebecca Ellis, Brian Wynne

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• DNA Barcoding has been promoted since 2003 as a new, fast, digital genomics-based means of identifying natural species based on the idea that a small ... Lees meer

Negotiating Bioethics

Adèle Langlois

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attributio... Lees meer

Growth Cultures

Philip Cooke

• Paperback | Genetics and Society
• This groundbreaking book is the first comparative analysis of the relative strengths of global bioregions. An excellent empirically-based study, it is... Lees meer

Psychiatric Genetics

Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Andrew Bartlett, Jamie Lewis

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Psychiatric genetics has become 'Big Biology'. This may come as a surprising development to those familiar with its controversial history. From eugeni... Lees meer

Creating Conditions

Katie Featherstone, Paul Atkinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Based on original ethnographic research with scientists, clinicians and families, this book examines Rett syndrome to illuminate more general issues c... Lees meer