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Biotechnology : the making of a global controversy
- Title
- Biotechnology : the making of a global controversy / edited by M.W. Bauer and G. Gaskell.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; London : Published in association with the Science Museum, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | TP248.23 .B563 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 411 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- Biotechnology is one of the fastest-growing areas of scientific, technical and industrial innovation; it is also one of the most widely publicised new technologies. Innovations as varied as the development of genetic testing and therapies, genetically modified food crops, animal and stem-cell cloning have given rise to increasingly prominent public debates. While the biotechnology industry initially assumed that regulatory processes were the sole hurdle, it is now apparent that a second hurdle, national and international public opinion, must be reckoned with.
- Subject
- Biotechnology > Europe > Public opinion
- Mass media > Europe
- Biotechnology > Social aspects
- Biotechnology > Europe
- Mass Media > Europe
- Biotechnologie
- Innovations technologiques
- Opinion publique
- Médias
- Génie génétique
- Analyse comparative
- Bioéthique
- Biotechnology > Public opinion
- Biotechnology > Social aspects
- Mass media
- Biotechnologie
- Öffentliche Meinung
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Sozialer Wandel
- Sociale aspecten
- Biotechnology
- Bioethics
- Etats-Unis d'Amérique
- Europe
- Europe
- Europa
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Researching the public sphere of biotechnology / Martin W. Bauer, George Gaskell -- PART I. The framing of a new technology: 1973-1996 -- Promise, problems and proxies: twenty-five years of debate and regulation in Europe / Helge Torgersen [and others] -- Media coverage 1973-1996: trends and dynamics / Jan M. Gutteling [and others] -- Institutions of bioethics / Jean-Christophe Galloux [and others] -- PART II. Public representations in 1996: structures and functions -- Traditional blue and modern green resistance / Torben Hviid Nielsen, Erling Jelsøe, Susanna Öhman -- Structure of public perceptions / Cees Midden [and others] -- European regions and the knowledge deficit model / Nick Allum, Daniel Boy, Martin W. Bauer -- Pandora's genes -- images of genes and nature / Wolfgang Wagner [and others] -- PART III. The watershed years 1996/97: two case studies -- Testing times -- the reception of Roundup Ready soya in Europe / Jesper Lassen [and others] -- Brave new sheep -- the clone named Dolly / Edna Einsiedel [and others] -- PART IV. The transatlantic puzzle -- Worlds apart? Public opinion in Europe and the USA / George Gaskell, Paul Thompson, Nick Allum -- PART V. Towards a social theory of new technology -- Biotechnology movement / Martin W. Bauer, George Gaskell.
- ISBN
- 052177439X
- 9780521774390
- 0521773172
- 9780521773171
- LCCN
- 2001052636
- 9780521774390
- OCLC
- ocm48176699
- 48176699
- SCSB-1269244
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library