The title of this book derives from C. Wright Mills' classic The Sociological Imagination (Penguin, 1970), the chapters in this volume address these issues through discussions of choice and informed decision-making, risks and hazards, the economic and political organization of new technology, and the publics as well as the scientist's understanding of science.
The title of this book derives from C. Wright Mills' classic The Sociological Imagination (Penguin, 1970), the chapters in this volume address these issues through discussions of choice and informed decision-making, risks and hazards, the economic and political organization of new technology, and the publics as well as the scientist's understanding of science.
Contents: Social dimensions of the Human Genome Mapping Project: an introduction Transitional science and the Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre How weak bonds stick? Genetic diagnosis between laboratory and clinic Information technology as an instrument of genetics Exploring organizational issues in British genomic research Eugenics here and now Moral and legal consequences for the fetus/unborn child of medical technologies derived from human genome research The American gene therapy industry and the social shaping of a new technology Social criticism and the human genome programme: some reflections on the limits of a limited social science Signs of life - taking genetic literacy seriously.
Contents: Social dimensions of the Human Genome Mapping Project: an introduction Transitional science and the Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre How weak bonds stick? Genetic diagnosis between laboratory and clinic Information technology as an instrument of genetics Exploring organizational issues in British genomic research Eugenics here and now Moral and legal consequences for the fetus/unborn child of medical technologies derived from human genome research The American gene therapy industry and the social shaping of a new technology Social criticism and the human genome programme: some reflections on the limits of a limited social science Signs of life - taking genetic literacy seriously.
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