Search results for “[Subject: genetics]”

• Author(s): Michael Parker | Brenda Almond • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThis title was first published in 2003.Developments in genetic science are opening up new possibilities for human beings; both the ...

• Author(s): Richard Tutton • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiochemistryDrawing on insights from work in medical history and sociology, this book analyzes changing meanings of personalized medicine o...

• Author(s): Ronald J. Herring • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographyGenetic engineering is changing the terrain of development studies. Technologies with unprecedented potential - the capacity to move gene...

• Author(s): Tina Stevens • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Bio-Science and Agriculture • BISAC: BiotechnologyBiotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience relates the i...

• Author(s): Robert Chernomas • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryBiological justification for all forms of inequality has a long history, with the claim that particular groups suffer disproport...

• Author(s): Deborah Lynn Steinberg • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralGenes and the Bioimaginary examines the dramatic rise and contemporary cultural apotheosis of 'the gene'. The book traces not on...

• Author(s): Barbara Prainsack | Silke Schicktanz | Gabriele Werner-Felmayer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralRecent debate about the ethical and regulatory dimensions of developments in genetics h...

• Author(s): Walter Glannon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsAdvances in genetic technology in general and medical genetics in particular will enable us to intervene in the process of h...

• Author(s): Robert Prescott-Allen | Christine Prescott-Allen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Animals - WildlifeTomatoes could not be grown commercially without the help of their wild relatives. A single wild specie...

• Author(s): J. Timothy Lightfoot | Monica Hubal | Stephen Roth • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneticsTechnological advances over the last two decades have placed genetic research at the forefront of sport and exe...

• Author(s): Sheila a. M. McLean • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneticsGenetics and Gene Therapy shows the wide range of the debate and the very real significance that genetics and its associated developments have...

• Author(s): Aditya Bharadwaj | Peter Glasner • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Emergency MedicineOne of the first studies of an exciting new development in global biotechnology, this cutting edge text examines the ex...

• Author(s): Michael Arribas-Ayllon | Andrew Bartlett | Jamie Lewis • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralPsychiatric genetics has become 'Big Biology'. This may come as a surprising development to thos...

• Author(s): Glenn Wilson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)First published in 1987, this book presents contributions from international authorities reviewing...

• Author(s): Charles Lawson | Michelle Rourke | Fran Humphries • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Intellectual Property - GeneralAddressing the management of genetic resources, this book offers a new assessment of the ...

• Author(s): Fabrice Jotterand • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralProvides readers with a philosophically rich and scientifically grounded analysis of human enhancement and its ethical implications. A landmark i...

• Author(s): Jean Piaget • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Child & AdolescentFirst published in 1997. This volume is the seventh of nine reproducing Piaget's original works.

• Author(s): Donald Bruce | Ann Bruce • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsFew issues have aroused so much public attention and controversy as recent developments in biotechnology. ...

• Author(s): Oonagh Corrigan | Richard Tutton • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralGenetic Databases offers a timely analysis of the underlying tensions, contradictions and limitations of the current r...

• Author(s): Jean-Paul Gaudillière | Hans-Jörg Rheinberger • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralWith the rise of genomics, the life sciences have entered a new era. Maps of genomes have become the icons for a comp...

• Author(s): John L. Fuller | Edward C. Simmel • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralOriginally published in 1983, this volume is a collection of papers by research workers active at the time. It includes reviews o...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Ettorre • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis title was first published in 2001. Featuring contributions from the UK, Finland, The Netherlands and Greece, this unique book ex...

• Author(s): Elisabeth Hildt | Sigrid Graumann • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: SexualityPublished in 1999, this book discusses issues related to the current and possible future technological progress in genetic tech...

• Author(s): Victoria Chico • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Family Law - ChildrenAdvances in genetic technology will lead to novel legal challenges. This book identifies four potential genomic claims which may be ar...

• Author(s): Troy Duster • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralConsidered a classic in the field, Troy Duster's Backdoor to Eugenics was a groundbreaking book that grappled with the social and political...

• Author(s): Ted Peters • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsSince the original publication of Playing God? in 1996, three developments in genetic technology have moved to the center of the...

• Author(s): Robin Bunton | Alan Petersen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social AspectsEthical and practical issues around genetic research are of major international concern, both in academia and in the public dom...

• Author(s): Hille Haker | Deryck Beyleveld • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: SexualityThis title was first published in 2000: This third volume of proceedings of the European Network for Biomedical Ethics focuses on ...

• Author(s): Sigal Ben-Zaken | Véronique Richard | Gershon Tenenbaum • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sports PsychologyDespite the prevalence of behavioral research conducted through genetic studies, there is an abse...

• Author(s): Sahra Gibbon | Galen Joseph | Jessica Mozersky • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe discovery of the two inherited susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the mid-1990s created the pos...

• Author(s): Frank B. Livingstone | Jonathan Marks • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryResearch on abnormal human hemoglobins (protein in blood that carries oxygen), has taught us about the inheritan...

• Author(s): Bernice Elger • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: JurisprudenceFollowing the boom in population databases in recent years there has been sustained and intense international debate about political processes ...

• Author(s): Laura K. Guidry-Grimes • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThe Basics of Bioethics, Fifth Edition offers a compelling introduction to the fascinating, ever-evolving field of bioethics. Accessible and...

• Author(s): Christine Frison | Francisco Lopez | Jose Esquinas-Alcazar • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Agriculture - Agronomy - Crop ScienceThe International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agricultu...

• Author(s): Ruth Chadwick • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: SexualityIn this revised edition with a new preface from the editor, leading scientists explain the nature and goals of test tube' reproduction and genetic...

• Author(s): J. N. Spuhler • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralGenetic differences in humans, like those between individuals of any animal or plant species and those between species, are all products of the evolu...