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Nature, Risk, and Responsibility

Name: Nature, Risk, and Responsibility
Author: Patrick O'Mahony; consultant editor, Jo Campling
ISBN: 9780415922913

by Patrick O'Mahony; consultant editor, Jo Campling

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Overview

Nature, Risk and Responsibility explores ethical interpretations of biotechnology and examines whether sufficient consensus exists or is emerging to enable this technology to occupy a significant role in the techno-economic, social and cultural order.

The contributors address the nature and prospective implications of biotechnologies for nature, life and social organization. This collection assesses the discourses of biotechnology and asks what a responsible society is when nature itself is engineered. Drawing from a wide range of social theories, the contributors evaluate the risks and proposes some of the key strategies for the future.

About the Author, Patrick O'Mahony; consultant editor, Jo Campling

Patrick O'Mahony is Director of the Centre for European Social Research, University College, Cork. He is co-author of Rethinking Irish History (1998).