Biotechnology unglued : science, society, and social cohesion

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Biotechnology unglued : science, society, and social cohesion

edited by Michael D. Mehta

UBC Press, c2005

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Biotechnology Unglued explores this question in awell-considered investigation of the effects of technology on socialcohesion. The essays present case studies of how various applicationsin agricultural, medical, and forensic biotechnology have affected thecohesiveness of agricultural communities, citizens, consumer groups,scientific communities, and society in general. The contributors, froma range of backgrounds, demonstrate how particular kinds oftechnology-society and technology-corporate configurations affectsocial cohesion by creating cultures of surveillance, competition,social exclusion, and control.

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Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Impact of Innovations in Biotechnology on SocialCohesion / Michael Mehta 2 The Impact of Agricultural Biotechnology on Social Cohesion /Michael Mehta 3 Agricultural Biotechnology and Developing Countries: Issues ofPoverty Alleviation, Food Security and Sustainable Development /Jacqueline Broerse and Joske Bunders 4 Legitimation Crisis: Food Safety and Genetically ModifiedOrganisms / Christopher Vanderpool, Toby Ten Eyck and CraigHarris 5 Genetically Modified Foods in Norway: A Consumer Perspective /Margareta Wandel 6 Commercializing Iceland: Biotechnology, Culture and theInformation Society / Kyle Eischen 7 Biotechnology and Social Control: The Canadian DNA Data Bank /Neil Gerlach 8 Biotechnology as Modern Museums of Civilization / AnnetteBurfoot and Jennifer Poudrier 9 The Production, Diffusion and Use of Knowledge in Biotechnology:The Discovery of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genes / Robert Dalpe, LouiseBouchard and Daniel Ducharme Contributors Index

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