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.
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 ...
GM Food on Trial: Testing European Democracy
1st Edition
By Les Levidow, Susan Carr
July 27, 2012
Europe was told that it had no choice but to accept agbiotech, yet this imperative was turned into a test of democratic accountability for societal choices. Since the late 1990s, European public controversy has kept the agri-biotech industry and its promoters on the defensive. As some ...
Local Cells, Global Science: The Rise of Embryonic Stem Cell Research in India
1st Edition
By Aditya Bharadwaj, Peter Glasner
May 28, 2012
One of the first studies of an exciting new development in global biotechnology, this cutting edge text examines the extent of the transnational movements of tissues, stem cells, and expertise, in the developing governance framework of India. Documenting the impact of local and global governance ...
The International Legal Governance of the Human Genome
1st Edition
By Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy
May 03, 2012
The human genome is a well known symbol of scientific and technological progress in the 21st century. However, concerns about the exacerbation of inequalities between the rich and the poor, the developing and the developed states, the healthy and the unhealthy are causing problems for the progress ...
Community Genetics and Genetic Alliances: Eugenics, Carrier Testing, and Networks of Risk
1st Edition
By Aviad E. Raz
February 21, 2012
Carrier testing of adults provides information about the risk of passing a genetic mutation to your children, leading to reproductive (and some say, eugenic) decisions. Excessive carrier screening may have adverse effects, but it can also prevent suffering and open up new reproductive options. ...