Nature, Risk and Responsibility: Discourses of Biotechnology Book

	Acknowledgements
	Notes on the Contributors
	Introduction: Biotechnology, Uncertainty and Contestation	1
Pt. I	Theoretical Reflections on Biotechnology and Responsibility
1	The Civilisation of the Gene: Biotechnological Risk Framed in the Responsibility Discourse	21
2	Biopolitics in the Risk Society: the Possibility of a Global Ethic of Societal Responsibility	37
3	Biotechnology as Expertise	52
Pt. II	Constructing Values: Public Communication on Biotechnology
4	Shifting Debates on New Reproductive Technology: Implications for Public Discourse in Ireland	69
5	Biotechnological Communication and the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Economic Actors	87
6	Constructing Difference: Discourse Coalitions on Biotechnology in the Press	100
Pt. III	The Dynamics of Institutionalisation: Juridification and Regulation of Biotechnology
7	Public Representation and the Legal Regulation of Assisted Conception in Britain	117
8	Discourse Formations and Constellations of Conflict: Problems of Public Participation in the German Debate on Genetically Altered Plants	130
9	Law and the Cultural Construction of Nature: Biotechnology and the European Legal Framework	147
10	Bio-patenting and Innovation: Nomads of the Present and a New Global Order	165
Pt. IV	Concluding Reflections
11	Modernity's Organic Economy of Governmentality	187
	Notes	199
	Bibliography	210
	Index	222