Nature, Risk and Responsibility: Discourses of Biotechnology - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0333665872 ISBN 13: 9780333665879

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Riassunto

This volume explores ethical interpretations of biotechnology and examines whether sufficient consensus exists or is emerging to enable this technology to occupy a stable role in the techno-economic, social and cultural order. The contributors address the nature and prospective implications of biotechnologies for nature, life and social organization and employ a wide range of social theories to evaluate risks and propose responses.

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L'autore

PATRICK O'MAHONY is Director of the Centre for European Social Research, University College, Cork since 1992. Previously he acted as European Research Co-ordinator at the Sociology Department, University College, Cork. He is joint author with Gerard Delanty of Rethinking Irish History: Nationalism, Identity and Ideology, and has written numerous articles and reports on the sociology and politics of nature.

Contenuti

Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: Biotechnology, Uncertainty and Contestation; P.O'Mahony
PART ONE: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS ON BIOTECHNOLOGY AND RESPONSIBILITY
The Civilisation of the Gene: Biotechnological Risk Framed in the Responsibility Discourse; P.Strydom
Biopolitics in the Risk Society: The Possibility of a Global Ethic of Societal Responsibility; G.Delanty
Biotechnology as Expertise; B.Barnes
PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING VALUES: PUBLIC COMMUNICATION ON BIOTECHNOLOGY
Shifting Debates on New Reproductive Technology: Implications for Public Discourse in Ireland; O.McDonnell
Biotechnological Communication and the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Economic Actors; M.Dreyer
Constructing Difference: Discourse Coalitions on Biotechnology in the Press; I>P.O'Mahony and T.Skillington
PART THREE: THE DYNAMICS OF INSTITUTIONALISATION: JURIDIFICATION AND REGULATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
Public Representation and the Legal Regulation of Assisted Conception in Britain; J.Murphy
Discourse Formations and Constellations of Conflict: Problems of Public Participation in the German Debate on Genetically Altered Plants; A.Bora
Law and the Cultural Construction of Nature: The Biotechnology Issue; C.Byk
Bio-Patenting and Innovation: Nomads of the Present and a New Global Order; R.McNally and Peter Wheale
Concluding Reflections
Modernity's Organic Economy of Governmentality; T.Skillington
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0333665872
• ISBN 13: 9780333665879
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 248
• Redattore: O'Mahony Patrick
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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