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RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES IN THE BIOTECH AGE
WHY WE NEED A GENETIC BILL OF RIGHTS |
| By: |
Sheldon Krimsky, Peter Shorett, Bill McKibben (Foreword) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£78.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0742543404 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780742543409 |
| Publisher: |
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD |
| Pub. date: |
11 March, 2005 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Synopsis: |
Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age is the first book reaching broadly into biotechnology that imbeds the issues into a rights framework for the social management of technology. The contributors to the volume comprise prominent university scientists, civil rights lawyers, and public interest activists who bring their perspectives to issues where science and civil liberties meet head on. This book explores the impact of new genetic technologies on how people define their 'personhood' and their basic civil liberties. It questions the thesis of 'scientism' where 'rights' must adapt and conform to technological changes. Instead, the authors explore the expansion of human rights in the face of new biomedical and bio-agricultural advances so that 'rights' and not 'technologies' are at the forefront of discussion. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Rowman & Littlefield |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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