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Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits examines the post 9/11 security implications for life science research as well as the methodological issues associated with conducting social research. In doing so the book considers the place of biological and social research in creating and responding to societal problems.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: What Should be Done
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Scientific Research and Social Inquiry
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The Conversations — Themes and Actions
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The Limits of Method
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
BRIAN RAPPERT is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs in the Department of Sociology& Philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK. His long term interest has been the examination of how choices can and are made about the regulation of technologies in conditions of uncertainty and disagreement. He is the author of Controlling the Weapons of War: Politics, Persuasion and the Prohibition of Inhumanity (2006); Technology and Security (ed., 2007), and A Web of Prevention: Biological Weapons, Life Sciences and the Future Governance of Research (with Caitriona McLeish eds., 2007).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits
Book Subtitle: An Inquiry into Research and Methods
Authors: Brian Rappert
Series Title: New Security Challenges
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230223158
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-00248-7Published: 19 September 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-28067-4Published: 01 January 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-22315-8Published: 19 September 2007
Series ISSN: 2731-0329
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0337
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 198
Topics: International Relations, Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education, Life Sciences, general, Biotechnology, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Military and Defence Studies