Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age is the first book reaching broadly into biotechnology that imbeds the issues into a rights framework for the social management of technology. The contributors to the volume comprise prominent university scientists, civil rights lawyers, and public interest activists who bring their perspectives to issues where science and civil liberties meet head on. This book explores the impact of new genetic technologies on how people define their 'personhood' and their basic civil liberties. It questions the thesis of 'scientism' where 'rights' must adapt and conform to technological changes. Instead, the authors explore the expansion of human rights in the face of new biomedical and bio-agricultural advances so that 'rights' and not 'technologies' are at the forefront of discussion.
- ISBN10 0742543404
- ISBN13 9780742543409
- Publish Date 11 March 2005
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 8 February 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English