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a special issue of JMB
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Edited By
Halldor Stefansson, EMBL
Description
These essays grew out of an effort at the EMBL to promote a new form of science communication on the social, ethical, and political issues
that surround rapid change in the life sciences. Published in the Journal of Molecular Biology, these eighteen essays address
the main topics of the future of the biosciences, biosciences and basic values, genomics and the globalization of biology, science miscommunication,
and reproductive technologies. Hot topics such as cloning, genomics, reproductive technologies, heatlh care costs are addressed.
Audience
Molecular biologists, geneticists, biomedical researchers, and researchers in the life sciences and social sciences.
Contents
A Revolutionary Landscape: The Restructuring of Biology and its Convergence with Medicine
Man's Place in Nature: Evolutionary Past and
Genomic Future
New Millennium: New Biology?
Biomedical Research and Health Care Costs: How Much Progress Can We Afford?
The Life Sciences
and the Rule of Law
The Impact of the New Biology on Ethics
Science and Philosophy: Bridging the Two Cultures Divide
Society, Stem
Cells, Embryos, and Cloning?Unraveling the Ethics of a Hot Debate
Human Behavioral Genetics?Past and Future
The Human Genome Project:
A Player's Perspective Acceptable Intellectual Property
Life Sciences: Discontents and Consolations
Futures in Scientific Communication
and Outreach
Is Science Dangerous?
Scientists as Communicators
Technology and Human Reproduction: 1950-2050
Still Giving Nature a Helping
Hand? Surrogacy: A Debate about Technology and Society
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Paperback, 150 pages, publication date: JUL-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-664052-6
ISBN-10: 0-12-664052-1
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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