Research Catalog

Title

Biotechnology : between commerce and civil society / Nico Stehr, editor.

Publication

New Brunswick, NJ ; London : Transaction Publishers, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

Stehr, Nico.

Description

x, 376 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Biotechnology > Social aspects
• Biotechnology industries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Preface and acknowledgements / Nico Stehr -- Introduction : biotechnology : between commerce and civil society / Nico Stehr -- Pt. I. Biotechnology and civil society : historical and theoretical perspectives -- Introduction : historical perspectives on re-shaping knowledge, re-shaping society / Eugene A. Rosa -- 1. Back to the future with bioliberalism : or, the need to reinvent socialism and social science in the 21st century / Steve Fuller -- 2. Biotechnology, ethics, and the politics of cloning / Steven Best and Douglas Kellner -- 3. Becoming neurochemical selves / Nikolas Rose -- Pt. II. Biotechnology, commerce and civil society : the social construction of biotechnology -- Introduction / Frederick H. Buttel -- 4. Pollution and the use of patents : a reading of Monsanto v. Schmeiser / Javier Lezaun -- 5. Genetics and citizenship / Anne Kerr -- 6. Peril or promise : news media framing of the biotechnology debate in Europe and the U.S. / Susanna Hornig Priest and Toby Ten Eyck -- Pt. III. Major societal institutions and biotechnology : the law, the state, and the economy -- Introduction / Martin Schulte -- 7. This is about ourselves : or, what makes genetic discrimination interesting / Alexander Somek -- 8. The culture of science in industry and academia : how biotechnologists view science and the public good / Steven P. Vallas, Daniel Kleinman, Abby Kinchy and Raul Necochea -- 9. Human embryonic stem cells, cloning, and the transformation of biopolitics / Herbert Gottweis -- Pt. IV. Biotechnology and civil society : case studies -- Introduction / J. Rogers Hollingsworth -- 10. The Icelandic biogenetic project / Gisli Palsson -- 11. Comparing the practice of reproductive genetics in Greece, UK, Finland, and The Netherlands : constructing "expert" claims while marking "reproductive" time / Elizabeth Ettorre -- 12. GM policy networks in Asia : a discursive political history of the "doubly green revolution" / Richard Hindmarsh -- Conclusions : shape the body, watch the mind - the brave new world of individualism in the age of biotechnology / Reiner Grundmann.

ISBN

0765802244 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2004041240
• X5-I80591

OCLC

• 54046276
• ocm54046276
• SCSB-5077992

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries