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The Rise of Industrial Genetics
An overview of the first ten years of the industrial revolution in applied molecular genetics, this work discusses the birth and expectations of the b...
Has the Lure of Profits Corrupted Biomedical Research?
How can an academic scientist honour knowledge for its own sake, while also using knowledge as a means to generate wealth? This text investigates the ...
The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis
In Hormonal Chaos, Sheldon Krimsky traces the emergence of an unorthodox hypothesis that casts new suspicions on a broad range of modern industrial ch...
How Corporate-Funded Academic Research Can Threaten Public Health
30+ Years of Peer-Reviewed Studies on the Corporate Ties and Vested Interests that Influence Scientific Research For over 500 years, groups and organi...
A Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical Frontiers
Stem cells and the emerging field of regenerative medicine are at the frontiers of modern medicine. These areas of scientific inquiry suggest that in ...
DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties
Explores how the United States and other countries have balanced the use of DNA databanks in criminal justice with the privacy rights of their citizen...
The Social History of the Recombinant DNA Controversy
Genetic Alchemy summarizes and clarifies the background of policy and ethical issues, the debates engendered by uncertain risks to researchers and the...
A Skeptic's View of Genetically Modified Foods
The debate over genetically modified organisms: health and safety concerns, environmental impact, and scientific opinions. Since they were introduced ...
The social science approach to risk has matured over the past two decades, with distinct paradigms developing in disciplines such as anthropology, eco...
An accessible introduction to how DNA ancestry tests work, what they can be used for, and the associated ethical issues....
Science, Policy, and Social Issues
Probing the profitable new science of creating--and altering--life forms "Extraordinarily well documented . . . remarkably clear. This is the most com...
Sense and Nonsense
Can genes determine which fifty-year-old will succumb to Alzheimer’s, which citizen will turn out on voting day, and which child will be marked for ...
What Modern Genetics Can Tell You about Assisted Reproduction, Human Behavior, and Personalized Medicine, and Much More
For a quarter of a century, the Council for Responsible Genetics has provided a unique historical lens into the modern history, science, ethics, and p...
Communicating Risks as a Social Process
This substantive, insightful book demonstrates the growing importance of risk communication as both a technical and cultural phenomenon. The authors d...