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  • RECONFIGURING NATURE (2004)
    PETER GLASNER
    Published in 2004, this collection will encourage and foster informed discussion of key issues as society comes to grips with the implications of genetic engineering, the mapping and sequencing of the human genome, and the advent of the post-genomic era. The contributors are prominent social scientists, health specialists, journalists, bioethicists and commercial representative...

    $920.00

  • SPLICING LIFE?
    PETER GLASNER / HARRY ROTHMAN
    Geno-technology is a technology unlike any other, with significant implications for life in the 21st century. It directly affects us at a deeply personal level, it poses a threat to the boundaries which conventionally define selfhood, it generates potentially novel risks and dangers, and it threatens the very basis of accepted understandings of culture and society. This uniqu...

    $1,200.00

  • GENETIC IMAGINATIONS
    PETER GLASNER / HARRY ROTHMAN
    The title of this book derives from C. Wright Mills’ classic The Sociological Imagination (Penguin, 1970), in which he sees the essential project of social science as the use of the imagination to 'grasp history and biography and the relations between the two in society'. This enables the social scientist to 'range from the most impersonal and remote transformations to the mos...

    $1,240.00

  • LOCAL CELLS, GLOBAL SCIENCE
    ADITYA BHARADWAJ / PETER GLASNER
    One of the first studies of an exciting new development in global biotechnology, this cutting edge text examines the extent of the transnational movements of tissues, stem cells, and expertise, in the developing governance framework of India. Documenting the impact of local and global governance frames on the everyday conduct of research, this groundbreaking book traces the jou...

    $300.00