Splicing Life?: The New Genetics and Society (Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research) - Hardcover

Glasner, Peter; Rothman, Harry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754632385 ISBN 13: 9780754632382

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

Geno-technology is a technology unlike any other, with significant implications for life in the 21st century. It directly affects us at a deeply personal level, it poses a threat to the boundaries which conventionally define selfhood, it generates potentially novel risks and dangers, and it threatens the very basis of accepted understandings of culture and society. This unique, exploratory volume discusses the ethical, cultural and philosophical issues surrounding the search for the 'book of life', focusing on the mapping of the human genome in Britain, the USA and Europe. It examines the impact of genetically modified crops, food and pharmacogenomics, along with the science and technology policy issues deriving from the human genome project. The authors investigate the potential risks and implications of the new genetics and conclude with a discussion of how nature may be reconfigured to underpin developments in health, commerce, state regulation and the law, both on a local and global scale.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Glasner is Professorial Research Fellow in the ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics at Cardiff University, UK. Harry Rothman is a Professor at Nottingham University Business School, UK.

Review:

'A thorough, stimulating and well-researched account. Glasner and Rothman take the reader from the competitive science of the human genome project to the global strategies of the biotechnology business. Gene technology raises fundamental issues of governance, ethics and citizenship. Splicing Life? represents an essential guide to this fascinating field.' Professor Alan Irwin, Brunel University, UK '...the authors offer an interesting perspective on the important matter of human genetics research, technology and society.' Nursing Ethics

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0754632385
• ISBN 13: 9780754632382
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 158