Nature, Risk and Responsibility: Discourses of Biotechnology

Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Biotechnology, Uncertainty and Contestation
P.O'Mahony PART ONE: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS ON BIOTECHNOLOGY AND RESPONSIBILITY The Civilisation of the Gene: Biotechnological Risk Framed in the Responsibility Discourse
P.Strydom Biopolitics in the Risk Society: The Possibility of a Global Ethic of Societal Responsibility
G.Delanty Biotechnology as Expertise
B.Barnes PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING VALUES: PUBLIC COMMUNICATION ON BIOTECHNOLOGY Shifting Debates on New Reproductive Technology: Implications for Public Discourse in Ireland
O.McDonnell Biotechnological Communication and the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Economic Actors
M.Dreyer Constructing Difference: Discourse Coalitions on Biotechnology in the Press
P.O'Mahony and T.Skillington PART THREE: THE DYNAMICS OF INSTITUTIONALISATION: JURIDIFICATION AND REGULATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY Public Representation and the Legal Regulation of Assisted Conception in Britain
J.Murphy Discourse Formations and Constellations of Conflict: Problems of Public Participation in the German Debate on Genetically Altered Plants
A.Bora Law and the Cultural Construction of Nature: The Biotechnology Issue
C.Byk Bio-Patenting and Innovation: Nomads of the Present and a New Global Order
R.McNally and Peter Wheale Concluding Reflections Modernity's Organic Economy of Governmentality
T.Skillington Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgements