Nature, risk, and responsibility : discourses of biotechnology / edited by Patrick O'Mahony ; consultant editor, Jo Campling.
This book 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. It employs a wide range of social theories to evaluate risks.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Biotechnology, uncertainty and contestation / Patrick O'Mahony
- The civilisation of the gene : biotechnological risk framed in the responsibility discourse / Piet Strydon
- Biopolitics in the risk society : the possibility of a global ethic of societal responsibility / Gerard Delanty
- Biotechnology as expertise / Barry Barnes
- Shifting debates on new reproductive technology : implications for public discourse in Ireland / Orla McDonnell
- Biotechnological communication and the socio-cultural embeddedness of economic actors / Marion Dreyer
- Constructing difference : discourse coalitions on biotechnology in the press / Patrick O'Mahony, Tracey Skillington
- Public representation and the legal regulation of assisted conception in Britain / John Murphy
- Discourse formations and constellations of conflict : problems of public participation in the German debate on genetically altered plants / Alfons Bora
- Law and the cultural construction of nature : biotechnology and the European legal framework / Christina Byk
- Bio-patenting and innovation : nomads of the present and a new global order / Ruth McNally, Peter Wheale
- Modernity's organic economy of governmentality / Tracey Skillington.