Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age is the first book reaching broadly into biotechnology that imbeds the issues into a rights framework for the social management of technology. The contributors to the volume comprise prominent university scientists, civil rights lawyers, and public interest activists who bring their perspectives to issues where science and civil liberties meet head on. This book explores the impact of new genetic technologies on how people define their 'personhood' and their basic civil liberties. It ...
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Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age is the first book reaching broadly into biotechnology that imbeds the issues into a rights framework for the social management of technology. The contributors to the volume comprise prominent university scientists, civil rights lawyers, and public interest activists who bring their perspectives to issues where science and civil liberties meet head on. This book explores the impact of new genetic technologies on how people define their 'personhood' and their basic civil liberties. It questions the thesis of 'scientism' where 'rights' must adapt and conform to technological changes. Instead, the authors explore the expansion of human rights in the face of new biomedical and bio-agricultural advances so that 'rights' and not 'technologies' are at the forefront of discussion.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Glued binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2004019684 Type of material Book Main title Rights and liberties in the biotech age: why we need a genetic bill of rights / edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Peter Shorett. Published/Created Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005. Description xiii, 235 p. 24 cm. ISBN 0742543404 (cloth: alk. paper) 0742543412 (pbk. : alk. paper) LC classification TP248.23. R55 2005 Related names Krimsky, Sheldon. Shorett, Peter, 1961-Contents Biodiversity--Life patents--Genetically engineered food--Indigenous peoples--Environmental genotoxins--Eugenics--Genetic privacy--Genetic discrimination--Exculpatory DNA evidence--Prenatal genetic modification. LC Subjects Biotechnology--Social aspects. Bioethics. Other Subjects Bioethical Issues. Genetic Engineering--ethics. Biotechnology--ethics. Human Rights. Notes "A project of the Council for Responsible Genetics." Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 174/.957 NLM class no. WB 60 R571 2005 Other system no. (DNLM)101227363
