Genomics and society : legal, ethical and social dimensions / edited by George Gaskell and Martin W. Bauer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The genomic society and its public : introduction / George Gaskell and Martin W. Bauer -- 2. Dilemmas of genetic information -- What is genetic information? -- Uses of genetic information in the European context -- Particularities of genetic information -- Power and hierarchy : the lay-expert divide -- Limitations of genetic prediction and intergenerational responsibility -- Some paradoxes by way of conclusion / Urs Dahinden, Nicola Lindsey, Aglaia Chatjouli, Carmen Diego, Bjorn Fjaestad, Marisa Matias, Joao Arriscado Nunes and Timo Rusanen -- 3. Spare parts for human bodies -- A common horizon -- Different stories in different countries -- Controversy and debate / Suzanne de Cheveigne, Edna Einsiedel and Jurgen Hampel -- 4. Moving the goalposts in bioethics -- Institutionalization of bioethics in Europe -- Future directions / Erling Jelsoe, Arne Thing Mortensen, Mercy Wambui Kamara, Maria Rusanen, Susana Costa, Torben Hviid Nielsen and Nicola Lindsey -- 5. Whom to trust with genes on the menu? -- The public perception of GM food -- Trust in information sources -- The formation of attitudes on GM food -- Methods -- Results -- Complexities in message reception / Matthias Kohring, Anneloes Meijnders, Cees Midden, Susanna Ohman, Anna Olofsson, Jorg Matthes, Maria Rusanen, Jan Gutteling and Tomasz Twardowski -- 6. Public mobilization and policy consequences -- Policy shift and the moratorium -- Possible explanations for the policy shift -- The concept of public outrage -- The role of public outrage in policy shift -- Public outrage or mobilization -- Mobilization as a social construct -- Demobilization / Jurgen Hampel, Petra Grabner, Helge Torgersen, Daniel Boy, Agnes Allansdottir, Erling Jelsoe and Georgios Sakellaris -- 7. The coming of age of public participation -- The trajectory of biotechnology and its applications and the role of publics -- The institutionalization of public participation? -- Features of institutionalization of public participation -- The road to institutionalization -- Whither institutionalization? / Edna Einsiedel and Mercy Wambui Kamara -- 8. Issue salience and media framing over 30 years -- The role of the media in the formation of public opinion -- News values and the relative autonomy of the mass media -- Changes in salience and framing of biotechnology over the years -- The impact of the media / Martin W. Bauer and Jan M. Gutteling -- 9. The politics of bioethics -- The derivation of a scientific discovery -- Restoration to immortality : the promise of a regenerative medicine -- Playing God? : old ethical concerns in new voices -- Adult stem cells as nature's own solution? -- Therapeutic cloning as humankind's techno-fix? -- The political ethics of human embryonic stem cells / Torben Hviid Nielsen -- 10. The monster in the public imagination -- Matters out of place, monsters and monstrosity -- The ever-changing monster -- Monsters in newspaper photographs and cartoons about biotechnology -- Imaging genetic hybrids : blended essence and emergent monstrosity -- The contemporary message of monsters / Wolfgang Wagner, Nicole Kronberger, Siv Froydis Berg and Helge Torgersen -- 11. Towards a global pop culture of genes? -- The value of popular culture -- Jurassic Park -- Genetic realities : fish and sports -- Popular culture in the news -- No clear winners or losers / Toby Ten Eyck -- 12. Competing voices, contrasting frames in North America -- Attentive and engaged publics -- Understanding other audiences -- Media messages and gene technologies -- Rethinking audiences / Susanna Hornig Priest -- 13. Transatlantic tensions over GM crops and foods : diverging perspectives -- The climate of public opinion -- What drives the perception of risks and benefits -- Conclusions / George Gaskell, Jonathan Jackson, Toby Ten Eyck, Edna Einsiedel and Susanna Hornig Priest -- 14. The Japanese experience -- The development of mass mediated discourse -- The law on cloning 2001 : the regulatory discourse -- The discourse of everyday conversations -- Cross-cultural similarities / Motohiko Nagata, Aiko Hibino, Toshio Sugiman and Wolfgang Wagner -- 15. Paradoxes of resistance in Brazil -- Climates of opinion and the public debate -- Resistance : local failure - global success -- Conclusions : explaining Brazilian paradoxes / Martin W. Bauer.

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