BIOTECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY - AN INTRODUCTION

Hallam Stevens (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2016
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-04601-3 (ISBN)

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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 even 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 will be an essential volume for students and scholars working with biotechnology, while still being accessible to the general reader interested in the details behind breathless news stories about biotech's promise and perils.

Hallam Stevens is assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the author of Life Out of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.09.2016
Sprache	englisch
Maße	17 x 23 mm
Gewicht	652 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-226-04601-X / 022604601X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-04601-3 / 9780226046013
Zustand	Neuware