Biotechnology - the Making of a Global Controversy

Biotechnology - the Making of a Global Controversy
Author: Martin W. Bauer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2002-09-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780521774390

A series of studies exploring the origins of the current controversy over biotechnology, first published in 2002.

Can Science Make Sense of Life?

Can Science Make Sense of Life?
Author: Sheila Jasanoff
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1509522743

Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science’s growing command over the matter of life. Armed with knowledge of the code that governs all living things, biology and biotechnology are poised to edit, even rewrite, the texts of life to correct nature’s mistakes. Yet, how far should the capacity to manipulate what life is at the molecular level authorize science to define what life is for? This book looks at flash points in law, politics, ethics, and culture to argue that science’s promises of perfectibility have gone too far. Science may have editorial control over the material elements of life, but it does not supersede the languages of sense-making that have helped define human values across millennia: the meanings of autonomy, integrity, and privacy; the bonds of kinship, family, and society; and the place of humans in nature.

Un-making Environmental Activism

Un-making Environmental Activism
Author: Doerthe Rosenow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367875800

Much environmental activism is caught in a logic that plays science against emotion, objective evidence against partisan aims, and human interest against a nature that has intrinsic value. Radical activists, by contrast, play down the role of science in determining environmental politics, but read their solutions to environmental problems off fixed theories of domination and oppression. Both of these approaches are based in a modern epistemology grounded in the fundamental dichotomy between the human and the natural. This binary has historically come about through the colonial oppression of other, non-Western and often non-binary ways of knowing nature and living in the world. There is an urgent need for a different, decolonised environmental activist strategy that moves away from this epistemology, recognises its colonial heritage and finds a different ground for environmental beliefs and politics. This book analyses the arguments and practices of anti-GMO activists at three different sites - the site of science, the site of the Bt cotton controversy in India, and the site of global environmental protest - to show how we can move beyond modern/colonial binaries. It will do so in dialogue with Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, María Lugones, and Gayatri C. Spivak, as well as a broader range of postcolonial and decolonial bodies of thought.

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Trames
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Total Pages: 380
Release: 2007
Genre:
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The Gene Revolution

The Gene Revolution
Author: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2012-04-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136553851

Whether or not to embrace GM technologies is a fundamental and politically charged question facing humanity in the 21st century, particularly in light of rapidly growing populations and the unknown future impacts of climate change. The Gene Revolution is the first book to bridge the gap between thenaysayers andcheerleaders and look at the issues and complexities facing developing and transitional countries over decisions about GM in light of the reality of what is happening on the ground. The first part of the volume looks at the rise of GM crops, commercialization and spread of the technology and the different positions of the USA and the European Union on the GM question and the effect of global markets. The second part consists of country perspectives from Argentina, Brazil, China, India and South Africa, which provide insight into the profound challenges these countries face and the hard choices that have to be made. The final part takes the analysis a step further by comparing developing and transitional country experiences, and charts a future course for government policy on GM that supports growth, sustainability and equity for the many billions of people affected worldwide.

BioIndustry Ethics

BioIndustry Ethics
Author: David L. Finegold
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2005-07-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080492517

This book is the first systematic, detailed treatment of the approaches to ethical issues taken by biotech and pharmaceutical companies. The application of genetic/genomic technologies raises a whole spectrum of ethical questions affecting global health that must be addressed. Topics covered in this comprehensive survey include considerations for bioprospecting in transgenics, genomics, drug discovery, and nutrigenomics, as well as how to improve stakeholder relations, design ethical clinical trials, avoid conflicts of interest, and establish ethics advisory boards. The expert authors represent multiple disciplines including law, medicine, bioinformatics, pharmaceutics, business, and ethics.

Genomics and Society

Genomics and Society
Author: Martin W. Bauer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136548041

The impact of genomics on society has been the focus of debate and conflict across the world. Contrasting views of risks and benefits, trust in science and regulation, the understanding of science, media coverage and mobilization of the public by civil society groups all have been cited as drivers of public opinion. The long running controversy is a signal that the public's view cannot be ignored in the development and implementation of new technologies arising out of genomics such as agricultural biotechnologies, genetic testing and the uses of genetic information, the cloning of human cells and tissues and transgenic animals. Written by a progressive international group of social scientists from Europe, North America and Japan, this volume presents a series of comparative perspectives on the social, ethical and legal implications of genomics. The result is a book which encapsulates the lessons to be learned from the controversies of the 1990s and raises the level of debate on the societal implications of new developments in genomics.

Social Representations and Identity

Social Representations and Identity
Author: G. Moloney
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2007-10-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 023060918X

Drawing on the non-individualistic perspective of social representations theory, this book presents an alternative view of social identity by articulating the inseparable dynamic relationships that exist between content, process and power relations when social identity is embedded in social knowledge.

The Search for a European Identity

The Search for a European Identity
Author: Furio Cerutti
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134063741

Makes the innovative effort of examining the interplay between political identity and legitimacy in the unprecedented but also unfinished development of the European Union into a fully fledged political actor.

The Politics of Biotechnology in North America and Europe

The Politics of Biotechnology in North America and Europe
Author: Montpetit, Éric
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2006-12-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0739159224

Biotechnology is one of the most important new issues to emerge in the knowledge economy. The Politics of Biotechnology in North America and Europe provides analysts with a perspective on policy-making in scientifically advanced countries that integrate the insights of several approaches and that display a particular sensitivity to the complexity of policy-making conjectures. This perspective allows going beyond the simplistic understandings of biotechnology policy currently prevailing. This volume provides a rigorous analysis and detailed information on biotechnology policy in nine countries. The essays included here present the results of in-depth empirical research in the area of biomedicine and agro-food biotechnology. The book is, therefore, not only of interest to policy-makers and policy analysts, but also to anyone with an interest in biotechnology.