Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
Nico Stehr
Introduction: Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society
Nico Stehr

Part I
Biotechnology and Civil Society: Historical
and Theoretical Perspectives
Introduction: Historical Perspectives on Re-Shaping Knowledge,
Re-Shaping Society
Eugene A. Rosa
1. Back to the Future with Bioliberalism: Or, the Need
to Reinvent Socialism and Social Science in the
Century
Steve Fuller
2. Biotechnology, Ehics, and the Politics of Cloning
Steven Best and Douglas Kellner
3. Becoming Neurochemical Selves
Nikolas Rose

Part II
Biotechnology, Commerce and Civil Society:
The Social Construction of Biotechnology
Introduction
Frederick H. Buttel
Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society
4. Pollution and the Use of Patents: A Reading
of Monsanto v. Schmeiser
Javier Lezaun
5. Genetics and Citizenship
Anne Kerr
6. Peril or Promise: News Media Framing of
the Biotechnology Debate in Europe and the U.S.
Susanna Hornig Priest and Toby Ten Eyck

Part III
Major Societal Institutions and Biotechnology:
The Law, the State, and the Economy
Introduction
Martin Schulte
7. This is About Ourselves: Or, What Makes Genetic
Discrimination Interesting
Alexander Somek
8. The Culture of Science in Industry and Academia: How
Biotechnologists View Science and the Public Good
Steven P. Vallas, Daniel Kleinman, Abby Kinchy,
and Raul Necochea
9. Human Embryonic Stem Cells, Cloning, and
the Transformation of Biopolitics
Herbert Gottweis

Part IV
Biotechnology and Civil Society: Case Studies
Introduction
J. Rogers Hollingsworth
10. The Icelandic Biogenetic Project
Gisli Palsson
11. Comparing the Practice of Reproductive Genetics in
Greece, UK, Finland, and The Netherlands: Constructing
"Expert" Claims while Marking "Reproductive" Time
Elizabeth Ettorre
12. 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
About the Authors
Name Index
Subject Index

About the Author

Nico Stehr