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The chapters in this volume address the issues of human genetics and new technologies through discussions of choice and informed decision-making, risks and hazards, the economic and political organization of new technology, and the public as well as the scientists understanding of science. The title of this book derives from C. Wright Mills' classics "The sociological imagination" (Penguin, 1970), in which he sees the essential project of social science as the use of the imagination to "grasp history and biography and the relations between the two in society". This enables the social scientist to "range from the most impersonal and remote transformations to the most intimate features of the human self". Another of Mills' concerns was the relationship between "the personal troubles of the milieu" and "the public issues of social structure" and these are most acutely illustrated in human genetics, the most personal of the new technologies. The chapters in this volume address these issues through discussions of choice and informed decision-making, risks and hazards, the economic and political organization of the new technology, and the public as well as the scientist's understanding of science. The methods used range from defiled ethnographies, through deconstructions of text and action, to surveys and interviews.

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New genetic technologies cut across a range of public regulatory domains and private lifeworlds, often appearing to generate an institutional void in response to the complex challenges they pose. As a result, a number of new social formations are being developed to legitimate public engagement and avoid the perceived democratic deficit that may result. Papers in this volume discuss a variety of these manifestations in a global context, including:genetic data bankscommittees of inquirynon-governmental organisations (NGOs)national research labo

Medical genetics --- Genetic engineering --- Social aspects. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Human Genome Project --- HGP --- H.G.P. --- stem --- cell --- research --- crops --- lines --- embryonic --- food --- bioethics --- discourse --- talk

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What implications are applications of new genetic technologies in biomedicine having on social identity in today's society? New Genetics, New Identities, a wide-ranging multi-disciplinary volume in the CESAGen Genetics & Society Book series, presents not only theoretical reflection but also empirical case studies drawn from an international array of authors. Including the highly controversial areas of reproductive technologies and use of human embryos in biomedical research, other key features include: a fresh analysis of a wide-range of social and political concerns in the development of new social identities examinations of the social implications of identity formation as a result from advances in genetic technologies from a number of perspectives both locally and globally resources of a wide range of social science disciplines to discuss significant sociological, anthropological, political and ethical issues. This superb collection is an essential informative read for postgraduates and academics in the fields of sociology, anthropology and scientific technologies giving a comparative approach to complex issues surrounding the social implications of these advances in a period of rapid social change.

Genetics --- Moral and ethical aspects.