Biotechnology and society : an introduction / Hallam Stevens.

Author
Stevens, Hallam [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Description
397 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    "With Biotechnology and Society, Hallam Stevens offers an up-to-date primer to help us understand the interactions of biotechnology and society and the debates, controversies, fears, and hopes that have shaped how we think about bodies, organisms, and life in the twenty-first century. Stevens addresses such topics as genetically modified foods, cloning, and stem cells; genetic testing and the potential for discrimination; fears of (and, in some cases, hopes for) designer babies; personal genomics; biosecurity; and biotech art. Taken as a whole, the book presents a clear, authoritative picture of the relationship between biotechnology and society today, and how our conceptions (and misconceptions) of it could shape future developments. It is an essential volume for students and scholars working with biotechnology, while still being accessible to the general reader interested in the truth behind breathless media accounts about biotech's promise and perils"--The publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • The limits of biotechnology
    • What is biotechnology?
    • The long history of biotechnology
    • Genetic engineering
    • Inventing genetic engineering
    • Recombinant DNA debates
    • Owning life
    • Biotechnology and business
    • Patenting life
    • Genetically modified foods
    • Risk, regulation, and our food
    • The economics of eating
    • The boundaries of bodily life
    • Owning part of you
    • Freezing, banking, crossing
    • Mapping genes, making society
    • Eugenics
    • The human genome project
    • Genetic testing, discrimination, and bioethics
    • Genetic testing, disability, and discrimination
    • Bioethics and medicine
    • Virgin births
    • From the pill to IVF
    • Cloning
    • Re-routing life
    • Stem cells
    • Designer babies
    • Minding your own biological business
    • Drugs and designer bodies
    • Personal genomics
    • Biotechnology and diversity
    • Biotechnology and race
    • Bioprospecting and biocolonialism
    • Biological futures
    • Synthetic biology and bioterrorism
    • Biotechnology and art
    • Conclusion: eternal life and the posthuman future.
    ISBN
    • 9780226045962 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 022604596X ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780226046013 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 022604601X ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2015044526
    OCLC
    929985397
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