Reconfiguring Nature: Issues and Debates in the New Genetics

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1 Introduction: What\'s New About the \'New Genetics\'?
PART I: LITERACY, PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING AND THE MEDIA
	2 The Gene Shop at Manchester Airport
	3 Public Understanding of Genetic Engineering in Germany
	4 Predictive Medicine, Genetics and Schizophrenia
PART II: COMMERCIALISATION AND HEALTH
	5 Pharmacogenetics: Implications for Drug  Development, Patients and Society
	6 The Use of Large Biological Sample Collections in  Genetics Research: Issues for Public Policy
PART III: GEN-ETHICS: HUMAN GENETIC BANKING
	7 DNA Sampling and Banking in Clinical Genetics  and Genetic Research
	8 Human Genetic Banking and the Limits of  Informed Consent
	9 Regulation and Social Perceptions of Genetic Data  Banking in Germany
PART IV: GENETIC SCREENING
	10 Genetic and Nongenetic Medical Information: Is there a Moral Difference in the Context of Insurance?
	11 New Practices of Screening in the Field of  Cancergenetics: A Co-evolutionary Perspective
	12 Lumping and Splitting Revisited: Or What Happens When the New Genetics Meets Disease Classification
PART V: CLONING AND XENOTRANSPLANTATION
	13 What We Know and What We Don\'t About  Cloning and Society
	14 Containing Contradictions: Debating Nature,  Controversy and Biotechnology
	15 Constructing the Scientific Citizen: Science and  Democracy in the Biosciences
	16 Conclusion
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