Biotechnology, Education and Life Politics: Debating Genetic Futures from School to Society

ISBN-13: 9780415707350 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 190 str.

Padraig Murphy

Opis

What should individuals and society do when genetic screening becomes widely available and with its impact on current and future generations still uncertain? How can our education systems around the world respond to these developments? Reproductive and genetic technologies (RGTs) are increasingly controversial and political. We are entering an era where we can design future humans, firstly, by genetic screening of 'undesirable' traits or indeed embryos, but perhaps later by more radical genetic engineering. This has a profound effect on what we see as normal, acceptable and responsible. This book argues that these urgent and biopolitical issues should be central to how biology is taught as a subject."

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Biopolitical Control and the Possibilities for Life Political Education  2. Biopolitics and State in Education  3. Biopinion  4. Future Scripts and Present Bodies  5. The Bíos in Education  6. ‘Political’ Science and Framing: an Education from Media  7. Nine Genetic Futures  8. Life Politics

O autorze

Pádraig Murphy is Lecturer in Communications and Chair of the MSc in Science Communication programme at Dublin City University, Ireland. His teaching and research interests include science communication, science and technology studies, and emerging technologies, biopolitics and media in education.