MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02003cam a22003258i 4500
001 2015044526
003 DLC
005 20151118083622.0
008 151113s2016 ilu 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2015044526
020 $a9780226045962 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780226046013 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $z9780226046150 (e-book)
040 $aICU/DLC$beng$erda$cICU
042 $apcc
050 00 $aTP248.23$b.S74 2014
082 00 $a660.6$223
100 1 $aStevens, Hallam,$eauthor.
245 10 $aBiotechnology and society :$ban introduction /$cHallam Stevens.
263 $a1609
264 1 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2016.
300 $apages ;$ccm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aThe limits of biotechnology -- What is biotechnology? -- The long history of biotechnology -- Genetic engineering -- Inventing genetic engineering -- Recombinant DNA debates -- Owning life -- Biotechnology and business -- Patenting life -- Genetically modified foods -- Risk, regulation, and our food -- The economics of eating -- The boundaries of bodily life -- Owning part of you -- Freezing, banking, crossing -- Mapping genes, making society -- Eugenics -- The human genome project -- Genetic testing, discrimination, and bioethics -- Genetic testing, disability, and discrimination -- Bioethics and medicine -- Virgin births -- From the pill to IVF -- Cloning -- Re-routing life -- Stem cells -- Designer babies -- Minding your own biological business -- Drugs and designer bodies -- Personal genomics -- Biotechnology and diversity -- Biotechnology and race -- Bioprospecting and biocolonialism -- Biological futures -- Synthetic biology and bioterrorism -- Biotechnology and art -- Conclusion: eternal life and the posthuman future.
650 0 $aBiotechnology.
650 0 $aBiotechnology$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aBiotechnology$xMoral and ethical aspects.