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Nature, Risk and Responsibility

Discourses of Biotechnology

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Patrick O’Mahony

    1. Centre for European Social Research, University College, Cork, Ireland

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  2. Jo Campling
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Biotechnology, Uncertainty and Contestation

    1. Introduction: Biotechnology,Uncertainty and Contestation

      • Patrick O’Mahony
      Pages 1-17

  3. Theoretical Reflections on Biotechnology and Responsibility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. The Civilisation of the Gene: Biotechnological Risk Framed in the Responsibility Discourse

      • Piet Strydom
      Pages 21-36

    3. Biopolitics in the Risk Society: the Possibility of a Global Ethic of Societal Responsibility

      • Gerard Delanty
      Pages 37-51

    4. Biotechnology as Expertise

      • Barry Barnes
      Pages 52-66

  4. Constructing Values: Public Communication on Biotechnology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Shifting Debates on New Reproductive Technology: Implications for Public Discourse in Ireland

      • Orla McDonnell
      Pages 69-86

    3. Biotechnological Communication and the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Economic Actors

      • Marion Dreyer
      Pages 87-99

    4. Constructing Difference: Discourse Coalitions on Biotechnology in the Press

      • Patrick O’Mahony, Tracey Skillington
      Pages 100-113

  6. Concluding Reflections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. Modernity’s Organic Economy of Governmentality

      • Tracey Skillington
      Pages 187-198

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 199-232
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About this book

Nature, Risk and Responsibility explores ethical interpretations of biotechnology and examines whether sufficient consensus exists or is emerging to enable this technology to occupy a stable role in the techno-economic, social and cultural order. The contributors address the nature and prospective implications of biotechnologies for nature, life and social organisation and employ a wide range of social theories to evaluate risks and propose responses.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for European Social Research, University College, Cork, Ireland

    Patrick O’Mahony

About the editors

BARRY BARNES Professor of Sociology, University of Exeter ALFONS BORA Research Fellow, Wissenschaft Zentrum, Berlin CHRISTIAN BYK Secretary, International Association of Law, Ethics and Science GERARD DELANTY Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Liverpool MARION DREYER Senior Researcher, Munich ProjektGruppe ORLA MCDONNELL Lecturer in Sociology, University College, Cork RUTH MCNALLY Research Fellow, University of Exeter and Director of BioInformation Ltd JOHN MURPHY Lecturer in Law, Manchester University TRACEY SKILLINGTON Senior Researcher, Centre for European Social Research, Cork PIET STRYDOM Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University College, Cork PETER WHEALE Surrey Management School and Director of BioInformation Ltd

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