Titlebook: Nature, Risk and Responsibility; Discourses of Biotec Patrick O’Mahony (Director),Jo Campling Book 1999 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of M

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Biotechnological Communication and the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Economic Actorscal and judicial risk sensitivity have induced the chemical industry — as profit pioneer in modern biotechnologies and so far the industrial sector most reliant on these new technologies — to expand and diversify its society-related activities. The industrial sector reacts to a manifest and cost-pro

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Constructing Difference: Discourse Coalitions on Biotechnology in the Pressvictim’ in human ethical and political consciousness. The depth of public reaction to biotechnological innovation shows society’s increasing interest in this discourse. The once confident foundations of scientific-technical rationality are now questioned by a public whose increasing power to impose

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Public Representation and the Legal Regulation of Assisted Conception in Britain. This chapter focuses on one such development — the revolution in human reproductive technology. When Louise Brown, the world’s first ‘test-tube’ baby, was born in the late 1970s the very fact of her birth captured the headlines. Today, so commonplace are such techniques — most notably in vitro fer

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Discourse Formations and Constellations of Conflict: Problems of Public Participation in the German a certain way this approach has been the traditional answer that modern democracies give to fundamental conflicts, for public participation is an aspect of democratic decision-making processes. It is called for and practised especially when alternatives for exerting control and influence appear to

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Modernity’s Organic Economy of Governmentality supported reality, it is hailed as one of the major animating forces of late modernity. The increasing invasion of science into food and flesh means that long-life tomatoes, bananas and super soybeans that resist germs, even if mutant, epitomise the food of tomorrow, while tobacco containing a gene

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Book 1999nable 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 respo

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