Overview
- View of biotechnology written from women’s perspectives
- Aid to help improve scientists’ responsibility to the decision-making processes affecting society at large
- Encourages dialogue within interdisciplinary sciences and with the scientific community
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Women Scientists in Biotechnological Research
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Bodies, Cultures and Scientific Metaphors
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Environmental Effects of Biotechnology
Reviews
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"Women in Biotechnology examines legal, ethical, scientific, and technological issues related to development in biological technology from a woman’s point of view. … this volume is a collection of papers presented at the international Wombit Conference dealing with women in biotechnology in Rome, Italy, in June 2007. … it is also accessible to general readers and academic audiences in other science fields. Summing Up: Recommended. Academic, general, and professional libraries, all levels." (C. A. Klevickis, Choice, Vol. 46 (7), March, 2009)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women in Biotechnology
Book Subtitle: Creating Interfaces
Editors: Francesca Molfino, Flavia Zucco
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8611-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8610-6Published: 02 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7933-6Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8611-3Published: 05 August 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 352
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Biotechnology, Gender Studies, Biodiversity, Philosophy of Biology, Molecular Medicine