Human Cloning in the Media

Joan Haran, Jenny Kitzinger, Maureen McNeil

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• This book provides an intensive exploration of recent popular representations of human cloning and genomics and the complex concerns evoked by these. ... Lees meer

Neurogenetic Diagnoses

Carole H Browner, Mabel H Preloran

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Amid intense debate over the consequences of decoding the human genome and the impact of such technology on our lives, these lucid, richly-textured, j... 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

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

Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology

Joseph Murphy, Les Levidow

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• This key text analyzes the EU-US conflict over GMOs and uses it to explore the governance of new technology. Although a lot has been written about the... Lees meer

Genetic Testing

Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Srikant Sarangi, Angus Clarke

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Firmly grounded in empirical data, this book critically engages with the relational, moral and ethical issues surrounding genetic testing in contempor... Lees meer

Knowing New Biotechnologies

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• This themed collection of essays from nationally and internationally leading scholars and commentators advances and widens current debates in Science ... Lees meer

Science and Democracy

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Science and Democracy advances a systematic, yet detailed, co-productionist understanding of how emerging modes of making knowledge in genomics and ot... Lees meer

Community Genetics and Genetic Alliances

Aviad E Raz

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• The social and bioethical aspects of carrier testing and its assimilation by specific groups are examined through several qualitative case studies in ... 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

The International Legal Governance of the Human Genome

Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy

• Hardcover | Engels | Genetics and Society
• This book explores international governance of the human genome from a human rights perspective and challenges paradigms of property that are entrench... 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

Debating Human Genetics

Alexandra Plows

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Debating Human Genetics examines contemporary public debate on emerging developments in medical genetics, including cloning, gene therapy, gene patent... Lees meer

Science and Democracy

• Paperback | Engels | Genetics and Society
• Science and Democracy advances a systematic, yet detailed, co-productionist understanding of how emerging modes of making knowledge in genomics and ot... 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 book develops a sociological analysis of the emergence of regenerative medicine, providing critical insights into what it means to 'regenerate bo... 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

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

The Scientific, Clinical and Commercial Development of the Stem Cell

Alison (University of Nottingham, UK) Kraft

• Hardcover | Genetics and Society
• This book provides a timely analysis of the past, present and future of the stem cell. It uncovers an intriguing and paradoxical story of scientific s... 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

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

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

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 (Cardiff University, UK) 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