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
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: Biotechnology, Uncertainty and Contestation	p. 1
Theoretical Reflections on Biotechnology and Responsibility
The Civilisation of the Gene: Biotechnological Risk Framed in the Responsibility Discourse	p. 21
Biopolitics in the Risk Society: the Possibility of a Global Ethic of Societal Responsibility	p. 37
Biotechnology as Expertise	p. 52
Constructing Values: Public Communication on Biotechnology
Shifting Debates on New Reproductive Technology: Implications for Public Discourse in Ireland	p. 69
Biotechnological Communication and the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Economic Actors	p. 87
Constructing Difference: Discourse Coalitions on Biotechnology in the Press	p. 100
The Dynamics of Institutionalisation: Juridification and Regulation of Biotechnology
Public Representation and the Legal Regulation of Assisted Conception in Britain	p. 117
Discourse Formations and Constellations of Conflict: Problems of Public Participation in the German Debate on Genetically Altered Plants	p. 130
Law and the Cultural Construction of Nature: Biotechnology and the European Legal Framework	p. 147
Bio-patenting and Innovation: Nomads of the Present and a New Global Order	p. 165
Concluding Reflections
Modernity's Organic Economy of Governmentality	p. 187
Notes	p. 199
Bibliography	p. 210
Index	p. 222
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