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

Glasner, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367604469 ISBN 13: 9780367604462

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

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.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367604469
• ISBN 13: 9780367604462
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160