Genes, Cells and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New Biology - Hardcover

Rose, Hilary; Rose, Steven

 
9781844678815: Genes, Cells and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New Biology
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ISBN 10: 1844678814 ISBN 13: 9781844678815
Verlag: Verso Books, 2013

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Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted the scale of the industry now dedicated to this new frontier. Since the launch of the multibillion-dollar Human Genome Project, the biosciences have promised miracle cures and radical new ways of understanding who we are. But where is the new world we were promised?

In Genes, Cells and Brains , feminist sociologist Hilary Rose and neuroscientist Steven Rose take on the bioscience industry and its claims. Examining the establishment of biobanks, the rivalries between public and private genesequencers, and the rise of stem cell research, they ask why the promised cornucopia of health benefits has failed to emerge and reveal the questionable enterprise that has grown out of bioethics. The human body is becoming a commodity, and the unfulfilled promises of the science behind this revolution suggest profound failings in genomics itself.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Hilary Rose is Emerita Professor at Bradford University and Visiting Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.

Steven Rose is Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences at the Open University. Long active in the politics of sciences, their joint books include Science and Society and Alas Poor Darwin.

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Verlag
Verso Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1844678814
ISBN 13 
9781844678815
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Anzahl der Seiten
329
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