Genes, Cells, and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New BiologyVerso Books, 8 квіт. 2014 р. - 336 стор. Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted the scale of the industry now dedicated to this new frontier. Since the launch of the multibillion-dollar Human Genome Project, the biosciences have promised miraculous cures and radical new ways of understanding who we are. But where is the new world we were promised? Now updated with a new afterword, Genes, Cells and Brains asks why the promised cornucopia of health benefits has failed to emerge and reveals the questionable enterprise that has grown out of bioethics. The authors, feminist sociologist Hilary Rose and neuroscientist Steven Rose, examine the establishment of biobanks, the rivalries between public and private gene sequencers, and the rise of stem cell research. The human body is becoming a commodity, and the unfulfilled promises of the science behind this revolution suggest profound failings in genomics itself. |
Зміст
Prometheus Unbound? | 1 |
Evolutionary Theory in the PostGenomic | 55 |
Ethics Enters the Laboratory | 85 |
From State to Consumer Eugenics | 125 |
The North Atlantic Bubble | 158 |
The Global Commodification of Bioinformation | 183 |
The Growing Pains of Regenerative Medicine | 217 |
The Irresistible Rise of the Neurotechnosciences | 245 |
Who Benefits? | 276 |
Afterword to the Paperback Edition | 306 |
Acknowledgements | 317 |
333 | |
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Genes, Cells and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New Biology Hilary Rose,Steven Rose Обмежений попередній перегляд - 2013 |
Genes, Cells and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New Biology Hilary Rose,Steven Rose Обмежений попередній перегляд - 2013 |
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