Genetics and Society
About the Book Series
The books in this series, all based on original research, explore the social, economic and ethical consequences of the new genetic sciences. The series is based in the Cesagene, one of the centres forming the ESRC’s Genomics Network (EGN), the largest UK investment in social-science research on the implications of these innovations. With a mix of research monographs, edited collections, textbooks and a major new handbook, the series is a valuable contribution to the social analysis of developing and emergent bio-technologies.
Governing the Transatlantic Conflict over Agricultural Biotechnology: Contending Coalitions, Trade Liberalisation and Standard Setting
1st Edition
By Joseph Murphy, Les Levidow
February 29, 2016
Delays in approving genetically modified crops and foods in the European Union have led to a high profile trade conflict with the United States. This book analyses the EU-US conflict and uses it as a case study to explore the governance of new technologies. The transatlantic conflict over GM crops...
The Gene, the Clinic, and the Family: Diagnosing Dysmorphology, Reviving Medical Dominance
1st Edition
By Joanna Latimer
February 27, 2015
While some theorists argue that medicine is caught in a relentless process of ‘geneticization’ and others offer a thesis of biomedicalization, there is still little research that explores how these effects are accomplished in practice. Joanna Latimer, whose groundbreaking ethnography on acute ...
Gender and Genetics: Sociology of the Prenatal
1st Edition
By Kate Reed
November 10, 2014
Prenatal screening for genetic disorders is becoming an increasingly widespread phenomenon across the globe. While studies have highlighted the importance of women’s experiences of such screening, little is known about men’s roles and direct involvement in this process. With a focus on the ...
Risky Genes: Genetics, Breast Cancer and Jewish Identity
1st Edition
By Jessica Mozersky
November 10, 2014
Ashkenazi Jews have the highest known population risk of carrying specific mutations in the high-risk breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. So what does it mean to be told you have an increased risk of genetic breast cancer because you are of Ashkenazi Jewish origin? In a time of ever-increasing ...
Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Biotechnologies: Lessons from European, North American and Asian Experiences
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Howlett, David Laycock
August 12, 2014
Agri-food bio-technology policy and regulation is transitioning from an early period focused on genetic engineering technologies to ‘next-generation’ rules and regulatory processes linked to challenges originating in a wide variety of new technological processes and applications. Can lessons ...
Human Cloning in the Media: From Science Fiction to Science Practice
1st Edition
By Joan Haran, Jenny Kitzinger, Maureen McNeil, Kate O'Riordan
May 16, 2014
This book examines the making of human cloning as an imaginary practice and scientific fact. It explores the controversies surrounding both ‘therapeutic cloning’ for stem cell research and ‘reproductive’ cloning. The authors analyse the cultural production of cloning, how practices and ...
New Genetics, New Social Formations
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Glasner, Paul Atkinson, Helen Greenslade
May 16, 2014
New genetic technologies cut across a range of public regulatory domains and private lifeworlds, often appearing to generate an institutional void in response to the complex challenges they pose. As a result, a number of new social formations are being developed to legitimate public engagement and ...
New Genetics, New Identities
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Atkinson, Peter Glasner, Helen Greenslade
April 28, 2014
What implications are applications of new genetic technologies in biomedicine having on social identity in today’s society? New Genetics, New Identities, a wide-ranging multi-disciplinary volume in the CESAGen Genetics & Society Book series, presents not only theoretical reflection but also ...
Creating Conditions: The making and remaking of a genetic syndrome
1st Edition
By Katie Featherstone, Paul Atkinson
February 14, 2014
Based on original ethnographic research with scientists, clinicians and families, this book examines Rett syndrome to illuminate more general issues concerning the construction and interpretation of diseases and syndromes. It derives from research with a specialist team of clinicians and scientists...
Genetic Testing: Accounts of Autonomy, Responsibility and Blame
1st Edition
By Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Srikant Sarangi, Angus Clarke
February 14, 2014
Advances in molecular genetics have led to the increasing availability of genetic testing for a variety of inherited disorders. While this new knowledge presents many obvious health benefits to prospective individuals and their families it also raises complex ethical and moral dilemmas for families...
Growth Cultures: The Global Bioeconomy and its Bioregions
1st Edition
By Philip Cooke
February 14, 2014
This groundbreaking book is the first comparative analysis of the relative strengths of global bioregions. Growth Cultures investigates the rapidly growing phenomena of biotechnology and sets this study within a knowledge economy context. Philip Cooke proposes a new knowledge-focused theoretical ...
Regenerating Bodies: Tissue and Cell Therapies in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
By Julie Kent
January 03, 2014
This exciting book examines how human tissues and cells are being exchanged, commodified and commercialized by new health technologies. Through a discussion of emergent global ‘tissue economies’ the author explores the social dynamics of innovation in the fields of tissue engineering and stem cell ...