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Scientists, investors, policymakers, the media, and the general public have all displayed continuing interest in the commercial promise and the potential dangers of genetic engineering. In this book, Herbert Gottweis explains how genetic engineering became so controversial - a technology that some seek to promote by any means and others want to block entirely. Beginning with a clear exposition of poststructuralist theory and of its implications for research methodology, Gottweis takes a novel approach to political analysis, emphasizing the role of narratives in the development of policy.

Genetic engineering --- Biotechnology --- Genetic Engineering --- Politics --- Government Regulation --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Biomedical Engineering --- Government policy --- Designed genetic change --- Engineering, Genetic --- Gene splicing --- Genetic intervention --- Genetic surgery --- Government Regulation and Oversight --- Government Regulations --- Regulation, Government --- Regulations, Government --- Conservatism --- Decentralization --- Liberalism --- Political Factors --- Voting --- Political Activity --- Activities, Political --- Activity, Political --- Factor, Political --- Factors, Political --- Political Activities --- Political Factor --- Intervention, Genetic --- Genetic Intervention --- Genetic Interventions --- Interventions, Genetic --- Biotechnologies --- Genetic recombination --- Transgenic organisms --- Dissent and Disputes --- Cloning, Molecular --- DNA, Recombinant --- Industrial Microbiology --- Artificial Gene Fusion --- Organisms, Genetically Modified --- Animals, Genetically Modified --- Plants, Genetically Modified --- United States --- Europe

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In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades after methods of prevention were known, hundreds of thousands of American miners suffered and died from black lung, a respiratory illness caused by the inhalation of coal mine dust. The combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of this disease-and even to acknowledge its existence-resulted in a national tragedy, the effects of which are still being felt.The book begins in the late nineteenth century, when the disorders brought on by exposure to coal mine dust were first identified as components of a debilitating and distinctive illness. For several decades thereafter, coal miners' dust disease was accepted, in both lay and professional circles, as a major industrial disease. Derickson describes how after the turn of the century medical professionals and industry representatives worked to discredit and supplant knowledge about black lung, with such success that this disease ceased to be recognized. Many authorities maintained that breathing coal mine dust was actually beneficial to health.Derickson shows that activists ultimately forced society to overcome its complacency about this deadly and preventable disease. He chronicles the growth of an unprecedented movement-from the turn-of-the-century miners' union, to the social medicine activists in the mid-twentieth century, and the black lung insurgents of the late sixties-which eventually won landmark protections and compensation with the enactment of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act in 1969. An extraordinary work of scholarship, Black Lung exposes the enormous human cost of producing the energy source responsible for making the United States the world's preeminent industrial nation.

United States / 20th Century --- Lung Injury --- Lung Diseases, Interstitial --- -Organizations --- Extraction and Processing Industry --- Pneumoconiosis --- State Government --- Government Regulation --- Coal Mining --- Federal Government --- Dust diseases --- Coal miners --- Lungs --- Miners --- Lung --- Cardiopulmonary system --- Chest --- Respiratory organs --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Health and hygiene --- History. --- Colliers (Coal miners) --- United States --- History

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From their origins, railways produced an intense competition between the two major continental systems in France and Germany. Fitting a new technology into existing political institutions and social habits, these two nations became inexorably involved in industrial and commercial rivalry that eventually escalated into the armed conflict of 1914. Based on many years of research in French and German archives, this study examines the adaptation of railroads and steam engines from Britain to the continent of Europe after the Napoleonic age. A fascinating example of how the same technology, borrowed at the same time from the same source, was assimilated differently by the two continental powers, this book offers a groundbreaking analysis of the crossroads of technology and politics during the first Industrial Revolution.

Railroads --- France --- History --- Germany --- Railroads and state --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Transportation --- History. --- Transportation. --- Government ownership of railroads --- Government regulation of railroads --- Nationalization of railroads --- Railroads, Nationalization of --- State and railroads --- State ownership of railroads --- Government ownership --- Transportation and state --- Railroad law --- Government policy --- Regulation --- State supervision --- Management

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How has the United States government grown? What political and economic factors have given rise to its regulation of the economy? These eight case studies explore the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century origins of government intervention in the United States economy, focusing on the political influence of special interest groups in the development of economic regulation. The Regulated Economy examines how constituent groups emerged and demanded government action to solve perceived economic problems, such as exorbitant railroad and utility rates, bank failure, falling agricultural prices, the immigration of low-skilled workers, workplace injury, and the financing of government. The contributors look at how preexisting policies, institutions, and market structures shaped regulatory activity; the origins of regulatory movements at the state and local levels; the effects of consensus-building on the timing and content of legislation; and how well government policies reflect constituency interests. A wide-ranging historical view of the way interest group demands and political bargaining have influenced the growth of economic regulation in the United States, this book is important reading for economists, political scientists, and public policy experts.

Droit industriel --- Droit économique --- Economisch recht --- Government regulation of commerce --- Industrial law --- Industrial laws and legislation --- Industrie--Législation --- Industrie--Wetgeving --- Industriewetgeving --- Industriële wetgeving --- Law [Industrial ] --- Législation industrielle --- Trade regulation --- Industrial policy --- History --- Industries --- Policies --- Of --- Government --- United States --- E-books --- Regulation of trade --- Regulatory reform --- Commercial law --- Consumer protection --- Deregulation --- History. --- Law and legislation --- Case studies --- Industrial laws and legislation - United States - History. --- Industrial policy - United States - History. --- Industrial policy - United States - Case studies. --- political economy, government, regulation, intervention, special interest, economics, history, nonfiction, constituent groups, workplace injury, labor, immigration, agriculture, bank failure, utility rates, railroads, legislation, trade, industrial policy, politics, illinois constitution, chicago gas industry, taxation, federal deposit insurance, new deal, workers compensation.

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In this book Anthony Heywood reassesses Bolshevik attitudes towards economic modernization and foreign economic relations during the early Soviet period. Based on hitherto unused Russian and Western archives, he examines an extraordinary decision made in March 1920 to import vast quantities of railway equipment. The book argues that under War Communism and the NEP railway modernization was vital to a strategy of rapid economic modernization, and provides the first detailed case study of the government's import policy. Following the histories of the principal contracts, it analyses Soviet foreign trade as a means to tackle domestic economic challenges. This book provides readers with a new perspective on Soviet economic development, and reveals the scale of Bolshevik business dealings with the capitalist West immediately after the Revolution.

Railroads. --- Railroads - Soviet Union - Equipment and supplies. --- Railroads and state. --- Railroads --- Railroads and state --- Business & Economics --- Transportation Economics --- History --- Equipment and supplies --- Soviet Union --- Economic policy. --- Economic conditions. --- Arts and Humanities --- History. --- Equipment and supplies. --- Iron horses (Railroads) --- Lines, Railroad --- Rail industry --- Rail lines --- Rail transportation --- Railroad industry --- Railroad lines --- Railroad transportation --- Railway industry --- Railways --- Government ownership of railroads --- Government regulation of railroads --- Nationalization of railroads --- Railroads, Nationalization of --- State and railroads --- State ownership of railroads --- Government ownership --- Government policy --- Regulation --- State supervision --- Communication and traffic --- Concessions --- Public utilities --- Transportation --- Trusts, Industrial --- Transportation and state --- Railroad law --- Management --- Economic policy --- Economic conditions