Peter Glasner, Harry Rothman

Genetic Imaginations

Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Human Genome Research

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Produktbeschreibung

The title of this book derives from C. Wright Mills' classic The Sociological Imagination (Penguin, 1970), the chapters in this volume address these issues through discussions of choice and informed decision-making, risks and hazards, the economic and political organization of new technology, and the publics as well as the scientist's understanding of science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781840143560
• ISBN-10: 1840143568
• Artikelnr.: 57040919

Autorenporträt

Peter Glasner, Harry Rothman

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Social dimensions of the Human Genome Mapping Project: an introduction
Transitional science and the Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre
How weak bonds stick? Genetic diagnosis between laboratory and clinic
Information technology as an instrument of genetics
Exploring organizational issues in British genomic research
Eugenics here and now
Moral and legal consequences for the fetus/unborn child of medical technologies derived from human genome research
The American gene therapy industry and the social shaping of a new technology
Social criticism and the human genome programme: some reflections on the limits of a limited social science
Signs of life - taking genetic literacy seriously.