Genomics and society: Legal, ethical and social dimensions

Contents: I. 1.Introduction 2. Genomics and society II. 1. Ethical and legal issues 2. Paradox and ambivalence in genetic information 3. Debating reparative medical technologies 4. Ethics and regulation of human cloning III. 1. Politics and the Media 2. Publics participating: Reflexive of reactive GMO policy 3. Public mobilization and policy shift in agricultural biotechnology 4. The climate of Media opinion on biotechnology IV. 1. In the public domain cultural imaginations of biotechnology 2. Trust in information sources and attitudes towards GM foods 3. The gene in popular culture 4. Risks, uncertainty and post-normal science 5. Reconsidering science literacy V. 1. International perspectives 2. The Trans-Atlantic Puzzle 3. Biotechnology in the Japanese media and public 4. The paradox of resistance 5. Conclusions 6. Genomics in the 21st century