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Geno-technology is a technology unlike any other, with significant implications for life in the 21st century. It directly affects us at a deeply personal level, it poses a threat to the boundaries which conventionally define selfhood, it generates potentially novel risks and dangers, and it threatens the very basis of accepted understandings of culture and society. This unique, exploratory volume discusses the ethical, cultural and philosophical issues surrounding the search for the 'book of life', focusing on the mapping of the human genome in Britain, the USA and Europe. It examines the impact of genetically modified crops, food and pharmacogenomics, along with the science and technology policy issues deriving from the human genome project. The authors investigate the potential risks and implications of the new genetics and conclude with a discussion of how nature may be reconfigured to underpin developments in health, commerce, state regulation and the law, both on a local and global scale.

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Biochemical engineering Biotechnology

• Full title: Splicing Life?
• Author: Peter Glasner, Harry Rothman
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 158
• EAN: 9780754632382
• ISBN: 0754632385
• ID: 04678867
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 390 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. July 2004

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