Reconfiguring Nature: Issues and Debates in the New Genetics (Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research) - Hardcover

 
9780754632375: Reconfiguring Nature: Issues and Debates in the New Genetics (Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0754632377 ISBN 13: 9780754632375
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004

Synopsis

As society comes to grips with the implications of genetic engineering, the mapping and sequencing of the human genome and the advent of the post-genomic era, this collection by an international team of authors should encourage and foster informed discussion of these key issues among the interested public, health and other professionals, teachers and students. Following an introduction discussing what is new about the new genetics, the book's 18 chapters are split into six sections, each with its own introduction and focusing on a different aspect of the biosciences. Topics include: genetic screening, gen-ethics, cloning and xenotransplantation, literacy, public understanding and the media, commerce, industry and patenting, and citizenship in the post-genomic era. The collection contributes to the development of qualitative social science methodology in an area where quantitative methods have proved less fruitful in exploring the contours and nuances of this developing technology.

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Synopsis

As society comes to grips with the implications of genetic engineering, the mapping and sequencing of the human genome and the advent of the post-genomic era, this collection by an international team of authors should encourage and foster informed discussion of these key issues among the interested public, health and other professionals, teachers and students. Following an introduction discussing what is new about the new genetics, the book's 18 chapters are split into six sections, each with its own introduction and focusing on a different aspect of the biosciences. Topics include: genetic screening, gen-ethics, cloning and xenotransplantation, literacy, public understanding and the media, commerce, industry and patenting, and citizenship in the post-genomic era. The collection contributes to the development of qualitative social science methodology in an area where quantitative methods have proved less fruitful in exploring the contours and nuances of this developing technology.

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Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0754632377
ISBN 13 
9780754632375
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
332
Editor
Glasner Peter

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