Biotechnology Unglued: Science, Society, and Social Cohesion
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Michael Mehta (Author)
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Proponents of biotechnology claim that its advances will create abetter world -- one free of malnutrition and hunger, where bettermedical treatments will be available through gene discovery, and wheremore efficient policing will be possible with improved forensictechniques. While some biotechnological innovations do providesignificant benefits to individual users, their impact on society isoften poorly understood. Will these new technologies unravel, orperhaps realign, the social fabric as we know it?
Biotechnology Unglued explores this question in awell-considered investigation of the effects of technology on socialcohesion. The essays present case studies of how various applicationsin agricultural, medical, and forensic biotechnology have affected thecohesiveness of agricultural communities, citizens, consumer groups,scientific communities, and society in general. The contributors, froma range of backgrounds, demonstrate how particular kinds oftechnology-society and technology-corporate configurations affectsocial cohesion by creating cultures of surveillance, competition,social exclusion, and control.
The two faces of biotechnology are revealed throughout to show thepromises and perils associated with a range of innovations. Thebook's reasoned commentary and engaging style will appeal toanyone interested in the social dimensions of biotechnology. 6 b&w illustrations
About the Author
Michael Mehta is Professor of Sociology and Chair ofthe Sociology of Biotechnology Program at the University ofSaskatchewan.
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- Contributor: Michael Mehta
- Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
- ISBN13: 9780774811330
- Number of Pages: 208
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
- Packaged Weight: 400
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
- Release Date: 2005-03-23
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Michael Mehta is Professor of Sociology and Chair ofthe Sociology of Biotechnology Program at the University ofSaskatchewan.
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