From sequencing to annotating: extending the metaphor of the book of life from genetics to genomics [0.03%]
从排序到注释:从遗传学扩展到基因组学的生命之书的比喻形象
Iina Hellsten
Iina Hellsten
The article discusses how the metaphor of the Book of Life was extended over time to cover the life cycle of the Human Genome Project from genetics to genomics. In particular, the focus is on the role of extendable metaphors in the debate o...
Comparative Study
New genetics and society. 2005 Dec;24(3):283-97. DOI:10.1080/14636770500349890 2005
The Human Genome Project: an examination of its challenge to the technological imperative [0.03%]
人类基因组计划:对技术决定论的挑战之考察
Cheryl A Koski
Cheryl A Koski
Increasingly scientists and governmental policymakers find themselves leaving their laboratories and office cubicles to share information and decision making with the general public. Contributing in large part to the development of science ...
Ian Diamond,Dawn Woodgate
Ian Diamond
We sketch the development of UK genetics and genomics research, and emphasize the UK's key role in the international genetics and genomics research community. We highlight in particular the part played by the UK's Research Councils and othe...
Social science and a post-genomic future: alternative readings of genomic agency [0.03%]
社会科学与后基因组时代:基因能动性的另类解读
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
This paper explores competing discourses that envision different socio-technical landscapes opened up by the completion of the map of the human genome in 2003. It examines the ways in which the map, and it organising principle and very rati...
Herbert Gottweis
Herbert Gottweis
The paper reconstructs the governance of genomics by sketching the main features, modes of operation and tactics of the emerging genomics apparatus. Genomic governance in the 20th century is characterized by the simultaneous operation of a ...
For an ethics of promising, or: a few kind words about James Watson [0.03%]
一种关于承诺的伦理,或:兼及詹姆斯·沃森的一两点评论
Mike Fortun
Mike Fortun
This essay questions some of the limits that both science studies and bioethics have assumed in their engagements with technoscience, and genomics in particular. It argues that these disciplines have privileged an "ethics of suspicion" rega...
In the democracies of DNA: ontological uncertainty and political order in three states [0.03%]
基因民主:国家认同、政治秩序与不确定性——基于三国的比较分析
Sheila Jasanoff
Sheila Jasanoff
This paper compares the regulation of biotechnology in Britain, Germany and the United States and shows that systematic differences have developed around four issues: abortion, assisted reproduction, stem cells, and genetically modified cro...
Comparative Study
New genetics and society. 2005;24(2):139-55. DOI:10.1080/14636770500190864 2005
Regulating stem-cell research and human cloning in an Australian context: an exercise in protecting the status of the human subject [0.03%]
澳大利亚规范干细胞研究和人类克隆实验以保护人权地位的措施——一项案例研究
Olivia Harvey
Olivia Harvey
Over 12 months prior to the recent United Nations decision to defer a decision about what type of international treaty should be developed in the global stem-cell research and human cloning debate, the Federal Parliament of Australia passed...
Contemplating choice: attitudes towards intervening in human reproduction in Sri Lanka [0.03%]
反思选择:斯里兰卡关于干预人类生育的态度
B Simpson,V H W Dissanayake,R W Jayasekara
B Simpson
To date, relatively little is known about the ethical, legal and social responses to recent advances in reproductive and genetic technology outside Europe and North America. This article reports on a survey carried out among doctors (n=278)...
Comparative Study
New genetics and society. 2005 Apr;24(1):99-117. DOI:10.1080/14636770500037859 2005
'Genetics is not the issue': insurers on genetics and life insurance [0.03%]
“遗传学无关紧要”——保险业者谈基因与人寿保险
Ine Van Hoyweghen,Klasien Horstman,Rita Schepers
Ine Van Hoyweghen
This article offers an analysis of the way private insurers deal with the issue of genetics and insurance. Drawing on specific written insurance sources, a reconstruction is made of internal debates on genetics and insurance within the priv...