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Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2009 5:142
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Marking Time. On the Anthropology of the Contemporary, by Paul Rabinow: Princeton University Press, 2008
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Challenges to public engagement in science and technology in Japan: experiences in the HapMap Project
Public engagement in science and technology has grown in importance as developments in science and technology make increasingly significant impacts on people's lives. Now, efforts to engage publics in social d...
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2009 5:114 -
Informed consent in genetic research and biobanking in India: some common impediments
The principle of informed consent, codified in the Declaration of Helsinki, has been widely seen as fundamental to bio-medical and research ethics. The importance of informed consent is increasing in procedure...
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2009 5:100 -
Secondary Uses of Personal Data for Population Research
In genomic research, cohort and large-scale population studies are proliferating along with accompanying infrastructures (databases and biobanks). Population-based research links samples and data from multiple...
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2009 5:80 -
Your Biobank, Your Doctor?: The right to full disclosure of population biobank findings
The advent of personal genomics companies offering direct translation of scientific data into personal health information, calls into question traditional policies to refuse disclosure of such scientific data ...
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Big Tobacco and the human genome: driving the scientific bandwagon?
The tobacco industry first began to promote the idea that a minority of smokers are 'genetically predisposed' to lung cancer in the 1950s. We used tobacco industry documents available as a result of litigation...
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Understanding Human Technogenesis: Human Development in the Post-Genomic World
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Book Review
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Human Gene Patents and the Question of Liberal Morality
Since the establishment of the Human Genome Project and the identification of genes in human DNA that play a role in human diseases and disorders, a long, moral and political, battle has began over the extensi...
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2008 4:64 -
Patenting Race in a Genomic Age1
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Intellectual property rights, the bioeconomy and the challenge of biopiracy
The last several decades have seen the emergence of intellectual property rights (IPRs), especially patents, as a key issue in developments across the fields of law, the economy and the biosciences, and as par...
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Between Sharing and Protecting: Public research on genetic resources in the year of the potato
Countries, companies and farming communities are increasingly involved in issues of sharing and protecting plant genetic resources, (traditional) knowledge and technologies. Intellectual Property Rights and Ac...
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2008 4:10 -
Editorial
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Stem cell patenting in Europe - the twilight zone
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Book Review
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2008 4:70 -
Interactive Communication in Pharmacogenomics Innovations: User-producer interaction from an innovation and science communication perspective
Pharmacogenomics is a quickly evolving field of research that increasingly impacts individuals and society. As some innovations in biotechnology have experienced strong public opposition during the 1990s, inte...
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2008 4:53 -
Genomics, obesity and enhancement: moral issues regarding aesthetics and health
Human enhancement is the term used for applications of biomedical knowledge that aim to improve human form or functioning beyond what is necessary to restore or sustain good health. Genomics is one of the rese...
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Inventing Oncomice: making natural animal, research tool and invention cohere
This paper examines how the oncomouse became a patentable invention. The oncomouse began life in the laboratory, where it was genetically modified for use as a research tool to assist with the study of human c...
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2008 4:21 -
The Informed Consent Process in Genetic Family Studies
The informed consent process provides protection by ensuring that potential research subjects understand the goals of the research project they are being asked to voluntarily partake in as well as the risks as...
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2008 4:11 -
Editorial
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Neoliberalising Bioethics: Bias, Enhancement and Economistic Ethics
In bioethics there is an ongoing debate about the ethical case for human enhancement through new biomedical technologies. In this debate there are both supporters and opponents of human enhancement technologie...
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Genes and the conceptualisation of language knowledge
While it would be difficult to dispute that individuals vary in their facility with both their native language and with foreign languages, a central tenet of modern linguistics has been that such variation is ...
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2008 4:58 -
The Meanings of the Gene and the Future of the Phenotype
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When biology goes underground: genes and the spectre of race1
This paper examines the changing meanings of the concept of 'biology', and of its opposition to 'culture', through an analysis of the ways in which anthropologists have sought to refute the idea that humanity ...
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2008 4:23 -
Hybrid Vigour? Genes, Genomics, and History
Is the gene 'special' for historians? What effects, if any, has the notion of the 'gene' had on our understanding of history? Certainly, there is a widespread public and professional perception that genetics a...
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2008 4:12 -
Editorial: What is special about the gene?
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What is special about the gene? A literary perspective
In answering the question 'what is special about the gene' from a literary perspective, the article suggests that if literary appreciation is often seen as a mark of human exceptionalism, knowledge of the gene...
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2008 4:1 -
GM animals - another GM crops?
As new biotechnologies are developed, the parallels with GM crops are often drawn. In this paper, I consider GM animals and contrast them with GM crops. I use a systems of innovation perspective to consider in...
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2007 3:1 -
A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life J. Craig Venter New York: Viking/the Penguin Group, 20071
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Born and Made. An Ethnography of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis Sarah Franklin and Celia Roberts Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 20061
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2007 3:60 -
Procreative Beneficence, Obligation, and Eugenics
The argument of Julian Savulescu's 2001 paper, "Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children" is flawed in a number of respects. Savulescu confuses reasons with obligations and equivocates b...
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Silence between patients and doctors: the issue of self-determination and amniocentesis in Japan
Japan is among the few countries that have passed laws concerning eugenics. Consequently, the practice of selective abortion (abortion of an abnormal foetus) has been publicly debated for the past 35 years. Ne...
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Public Health Genomics (PHG): From Scientific Considerations to Ethical Integration
Recent advances in our understanding of the human genome have raised high hopes for the creation of personalized medicine able to predict diseases well before they occur, or that will lead to individualized an...
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Editorial
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Animal Genomics and Ambivalence: A Sociology of Animal Bodies in Agricultural Biotechnology
How may emergent biotechnologies impact upon our relations with other animals? To what extent are any changes indicative of new relations between society and nature? This paper critically explores which sociol...
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2007 3:99 -
Exploring Biopower in the Regulation of Farm Animal Bodies: Genetic Policy Interventions in UK Livestock
This paper explores the analytical relevance of Foucault's notion of biopower in the context of regulating and managing non-human lives and populations, specifically those animals that are the focus of livesto...
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2007 3:82 -
The Reification of Life
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Socialising Animal Disease Risk: inventing Traceback and reinventing animals
Through a discussion of how the inventive practices of farm animal genomics interact with animal disease and food risk, this paper aims to expand our notion of what constitute the social dimensions of animal g...
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2007 3:57 -
The Barcode of Life Initiative: Reply to Dupré, Hollingsworth and Holm
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2007 3:52 -
The Book of Life goes online
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DNA barcoding: potential users
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2007 3:44 -
Real but modest gains from genetic barcoding
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The Barcode of Life Initiative: synopsis and prospective societal impacts of DNA barcoding of Fish
Almost 250 years after the publication of the taxonomy-founding work Systema Naturae, by Carl Linnaeus, the inventory and catalogue of the planet's biodiversity is still far from complete: only ca 1.5 to 1.8 mill...
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Editorial: Animal Genomes, Bodies and Tissue in Science and Society
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Animal Genomics in Science, Social Science and Culture
Animals are commonplace in genomic research, yet to date there has been little direct interrogation of the position, role and construction of animals in the otherwise flourishing social science of genomics. Fo...
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The God Delusion Richard Dawkins Bantam Press, 2006
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Book review
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HUGO Statement on Pharmacogenomics (PGx): Solidarity, Equity and Governance
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Editorial: Statements, declarations and the problems of ethical expertise
Citation: Genomics, Society and Policy 2007 3:02