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Nature Risk & Responsibility
Jo Campling
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Description for Nature Risk & Responsibility
Paperback. 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 implications of biotechnologies for nature, life and social organisation. Editor(s): Campling, Jo; O'Mahony, Patrick. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GPF; HPQ; JFFR; JHBA; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333665886
SKU
V9780333665886
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99-15
About Jo Campling
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 ... Read more
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