Nature, Risk and Responsibility: Discourses

Nature, Risk and Responsibilityexplores ethical interpretations of biotechnology and examines whether sufficient consensus exists or is emerging to enable this technology to occupy a significant role in the techno-economic, social and cultural order. The contributors address the nature and prospective implications of biotechnologies for nature, life and social organization. This collection assesses the discourses of biotechnology and asks what a responsible society is when nature itself is engineered. Drawing from a wide range of social theories, the contributors evaluate the risks and proposes some of the key strategies for the future.

Acknowledgements

vii

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Notes on the Contributors

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Introduction: Biotechnology, Uncertainty and Contestation

1

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Patrick O'Mahony

Part I Theoretical Reflections on Biotechnology and Responsibility

21

(48)

1 The Civilisation of the Gene: Biotechnological Risk Framed in the Responsibility Discourse

21

(16)

Piet Strydom

2 Biopolitics in the Risk Society: the Possibility of a Global Ethic of Societal Responsibility

37

(15)

Gerard Delanty

3 Biotechnology as Expertise

52

(17)

Barry Barnes

Part II Constructing Values: Public Communication on Biotechnology

69

(48)

4 Shifting Debates on New Reproductive Technology: Implications for Public Discourse in Ireland

69

(18)

Orla McDonnell

5 Biotechnological Communication and the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Economic Actors

87

(13)

Marion Dreyer

6 Constructing Difference: Discourse Coalitions on Biotechnology in the Press

100

(17)

Patrick O'Mahony

Tracey Skillington

Part III The Dynamics of Institutionalisation: Juridification and Regulation of Biotechnology

117

(70)

7 Public Representation and the Legal Regulation of Assisted Conception in Britain

117

(13)

John Murphy

8 Discourse Formations and Constellations of Conflict: Problems of Public Participation in the German Debate on Genetically Altered Plants

130

(17)

Alfons Bora

9 Law and the Cultural Construction of Nature: Biotechnology and the European Legal Framework

147

(18)

Christian Byk

10 Bio-patenting and Innovation: Nomads of the Present and a New Global Order

165

(22)

Ruth McNally

Peter Wheale

Part IV Concluding Reflections

187

(12)

11 Modernity's Organic Economy of Governmentality

187

(12)

Tracey Skillington

Notes

199

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Bibliography

210

(12)

Index

222

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