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

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

Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology

Joseph Murphy, Les Levidow

• Hardcover | 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

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

Risky Genes

Jessica Mozersky

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Ashkenazi Jews have the highest known population risk of carrying specific mutations in the high-risk breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. So what do... 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

Gender and Genetics

Kate Reed

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Prenatal screening for genetic disorders is becoming an increasingly widespread phenomenon across the globe. While studies have highlighted the import... Lees meer

Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Biotechnologies

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Agri-food bio-technology policy and regulation is transitioning from an early period focused on genetic engineering technologies to 'next-generation' ... 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

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

Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Biotechnologies

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Agri-food bio-technology policy and regulation is transitioning from an early period focused on genetic engineering technologies to 'next-generation' ... 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

Breast Cancer Gene Research and Medical Practices

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• The discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the possibility of predictive genetic testing and led... Lees meer

The Gene, the Clinic, and the Family

Joanna Latimer

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• While some theorists argue that medicine is caught in a relentless process of 'geneticization' and others offer a thesis of biomedicalization, there i... 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

Local Cells, Global Science

Aditya Bharadwaj, Peter Glasner

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• One of the first studies of an exciting new development in global biotechnology, this cutting edge text examines the extent of the transnational movem... Lees meer

New Genetics, New Social Formations

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• New genetic technologies cut across a range of public regulatory domains and private lifeworlds, often appearing to generate an institutional void in ... Lees meer

Risky Genes

Jessica Mozersky

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Ashkenazi Jews have the highest known population risk of carrying specific mutations in the high-risk breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. So what do... Lees meer

The International Legal Governance of the Human Genome

Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• The human genome is a well known symbol of scientific and technological progress in the 21st century. However, concerns about the exacerbation of ineq... 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

Knowing New Biotechnologies

• Hardcover | 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

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

New Genetics, New Social Formations

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• New genetic technologies cut across a range of public regulatory domains and private lifeworlds, often appearing to generate an institutional void in ... Lees meer