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

Glasner, Peter E.; Rothman, Harry

ISBN 10: 0754632385 / ISBN 13: 9780754632382

Published by Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom, 2004

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Includes the text of private dedication by author. Hardcover with sun faded spine and slightly bumped botom edges and contents in very good clean condition. Illustrated with tables. T.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Splicing Life? : The New Genetics and Society (Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research)
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754632385
• ISBN 13: 9780754632382
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science - General

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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 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.