RECONFIGURING NATURE: ISSUES AND DEBATES IN THE NEW GENETICS

Abstract

List of tables and figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Ch. 1. Introduction: what's new about the `new genetics'? / Peter Glasner and Harry Rothman -- Pt. I. Literacy, public understanding and the media -- Ch. 2. The gene shop at Manchester airport / Mairi Levitt -- Ch. 3. Public understanding of genetic engineering in Germany / Jurgen Hampel -- Ch. 4. Predictive medicine, genetics and schizophrenia / John Turney and Jill Turner -- Pt. II. Commercialisation and health -- Ch. 5. Pharmacogenetics: implications for drug development, patients and society / Alun McCarthy -- Ch. 6. The use of large biological sample collections in genetics research: issues for public policy / Paul Martin and Jane Kaye -- Pt. III. Gen-ethics: human genetic banking -- Ch. 7. DNA sampling and banking in clinical genetics and genetic research / Kare Berg -- Ch. 8. Human genetic banking and the limits of informed consent / Garrath Williams and Doris Schroeder -- Ch. 9. Regulation and social perceptions of genetic data banking in Germany / Juergen Simon and Susanne Braun -- Pt. IV. Genetic screening -- Ch. 10. Genetic and nongenetic medical information: is there a moral difference in the context of insurance? / Veikko Launis -- Ch. 11. New practices of screening in the field of cancergenetics: a co-evolutionary perspective / Dirk Stemerding and Annemiek Nelis -- Ch. 12. Lumping and splitting revisited: or what happens when the new genetics meets disease classification /Adam M. Hedgecoe -- Pt. V. Cloning and xenotransplantation -- Ch. 13. What we know and what we don't about cloning and society / Sarah Franklin -- Ch. 14. Containing contradictions: debating nature, controversy and biotechnology / Nik Brown -- Ch. 15. Constructing the scientific citizen: science and democracy in the biosciences / Alan Irwin -- Ch. 16. Conclusion / Peter Glasner -- Index