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Social theory and human biotechnology / Tim Owen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Owen, Tim, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Biotechnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text is intended as a contribution towards metatheoretical development as part of the post-postmodern 'return to' sociological theory associated with Robert Sibeon, Derek Layder, Nicos Mouzelis, Margaret Archer and Owen.
- Contents:
- Intro
- SOCIAL THEORY AND HUMAN BIOTECHNOLOGY
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ABSTRACT
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- TRANSITIONS IN SOCIAL THEORY
- FOUR 'CARDINAL SINS'
- Reductionism
- Essentialism
- Reification
- Functional Teleology
- METATHEORY AND PROBLEMS OF RELATIVISM
- THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT AND FOUCAULDIAN 'POWER'
- AGENCY AND SOCIAL ACTORS
- ARCHER, LAYDER AND MOUZELIS: POST-POSTMODERN THEORISTS
- A. Margaret Archer
- B. Nicos Mouzelis
- C. Derek Layder
- A POST-POSTMODERN METATHEORETICAL FRAMEWORK?
- CODIFICATION OF THE METATHEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
- 'BUILDING BRIDGES'
- EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY AND 'NATURE VIA NURTURE'
- DUALITY VERSUS DUALISM REVISITED
- INCORPORATING THE BIOLOGICAL VARIABLE
- HUMAN BIOTECHNOLOGY: SELECTED ISSUES AND IMPLICATIONS
- THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT
- RISK AND GOVERNANCE
- HUMAN BIOTECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
- Artificial Insemination
- Egg Donation
- Prenatal Diagnosis of Genetic Disorders
- Pregnancy Termination of 'Defective' Fetuses
- The Eugenic Implications of Prenatal Diagnosis
- Embryo Selection
- Genetic Engineering
- Cloning
- Human Biotechnology: A Form of 'New' Eugenics?
- FURTHER ETHICAL CONCERNS AND HUMAN BIOTECHNOLOGY
- Prenatal Diagnosis
- Selection for Sex
- Gene Therapy
- BIO-MEDICAL DISCOURSE
- AN APPLICATION OF THE METATHEORETICAL FRAMEWORK TO THE STUDY OF HUMAN BIOTECHNOLOGY
- THE META-THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
- REIFICATION
- ESSENTIALISM
- FUNCTIONAL TELEOLOGY
- REDUCTIONISM
- GENETIC FATALISM
- THE OVERSOCIALISED GAZE
- THE BIOLOGICAL VARIABLE
- POWER
- DUALISM
- AGENCY-STRUCTURE, MICRO-MACRO, TIME-SPACE
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-176) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61209-237-3
- OCLC:
- 727950297
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