Pt. I. Biotechnology and civil society : historical and theoretical perspectives. Introduction : Historical perspectives on re-shaping knowledge, re-shaping society / Eugene A. Rosa ; Back to the future with bioliberalism : or, the need to reinvent socialism and social science in the 21st century / Steve Fuller ; Biotechnology, ethics, and the politics of cloning / Steven Best and Douglas Kellner ; Becoming neurochemical selves / Nikolas Rose
Pt. II. Biotechnology, commerce and civil society : the social construction of biotechnology. Introduction / Frederick H. Buttel
Pollution and the use of patents : a reading of Monsanto v. Schmeiser / Javier Lezaun ; Genetics and citizenship / Anne Kerr ; Peril and promise : news media framing of the biotechnology debate in Europe and the U.S. / Susanna Hornig Priest and Toby Ten Eyck
Pt. III. Major societal institutions and biotechnology : the law, the state, and the economy. Introduction / Martin Schulte ; This is about ourselves : or, what makes genetic discrimination interesting / Alexander Somek ; The culture of science in industry and academia : how biotechnologists view science and the public good / Steven P. Vallas ... [et al.] ; Human embryonic stem cells, cloning, and the transformation of biopolitics / Herbert Gottweis
Pt. IV. Biotechnology and civil society : case studies. Introduction / J. Rogers Hollingsworth ; The Icelandic biogenetic project / Gísli Pálsson ; Comparing the practice of reproductive genetics in Greece, UK, Finland, and the Netherlands : constructing "expert" claims while marking "reproductive" time / Elizabeth Ettorre ; GM policy networks in Asia : a discursive political history of the "doubly green revolution" / Richard Hindmarsh
Conclusions : Shape the body, watch the mind - the brave new world of individualism in the age of biotechnology / Reiner Grundmann.
