TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 49, Issue 4 (December 2006)
New Technologies and Development
Thematic Section: Nanotechnology, Ethics and Development |
Dialogue |
Local/Global Encounters |
Book Review |
Book Shelf |
Window on the World |
Who's Who |
Last Word
Upfront
Editorial: Big Science: Individual hopes, collective risks FREE
Outlines the complex ethical and political concerns raised in the journal issue
Wendy Harcourt
Development 49: 1-5; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100316
Nanotechnology for Health and Development
Looks at the promises and perils of nanotechnology for health and bodily integrity
Gregor Wolbring
Development 49: 6-15; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100309
Hype and Hope: A past and future perspective on new technologies for development
Argues we need to understand the new technologies within the context of global injustice
Pat Mooney
Development 49: 16-22; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100305
Gender, New Technologies and Development
Focuses on the gendered dimensions of the new biotechnologies
Marsha J Tyson Darling
Development 49: 23-27; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100318
Thematic Section: Nanotechnology, Ethics and Development
DNA Typing: A technology of fear
Explores how DNA typing could give rise to a new apartheid
Sujatha Byravan
Development 49: 28-32; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100294
Food Security: Empty promises of technological solutions
Questions if nanotechnology will provide the next revolution for the food and agriculture industry
Anuradha Mittal
Development 49: 33-38; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100295
An Introduction to Nanotechnology: The next small big thing
Focuses on the gendered dimensions of the new biotechnologies
Jim Thomas
Development 49: 39-46; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100315
Nanotechnologies: Small science, big potential and bigger issues
Asks that we look carefully at nanotechnology-related ethical, legal, and social implications (NELSI)
Michele Mekel
Development 49: 47-53; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100296
Nanotechnology in Medicine: Implications of converging technologies on humanity
Discusses the challenges of nanotechnology to health-related technologies and the nature of human identity
Debra Bennett-Woods
Development 49: 54-59; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100297
To Clone Alone: The United Nations Human Cloning Declaration
Traces the development of the United Nation s Declaration on Human Cloning
Rosario M Isasi and George J Annas
Development 49: 60-67; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100313
Dialogue
Public Science and Social Responsibilities
Seeks to understand the role and responsibility of science and scientists in new technologies
Daniel Sarewitz
Development 49: 68-72; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100298
Colonialism and the Research Endeavour: Reflections on the Human Genome Diversity Project
Offers her longstanding analysis of the problems around the Human Genome Diversity Project
Beth Elpern Burrows
Development 49: 73-77; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100314
The Old Meets the New: Religion and assisted reproductive technologies
Suggests ARTS reflects a major contest of religious influence on the secular nature of the state
Wendy Chavkin
Development 49: 78-83; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100299
Marketing of Assisted Human Reproduction and the Indian State
Examines the phenomenal growth of the private fee-for-service health sector in Indiain relation to reproductive rights
Shree Mulay and Emily Gibson
Development 49: 84-93; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100311
'Biopiracy' as a Challenge to Intellectual Property Rights Systems
Presents biopiracy as an index to the conflicting views about technological and legal encroachments into nature
Chris Hamilton
Development 49: 94-100; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100300
Disability, Development and the Biotechnologies
Underlines that disabled people contribute difference and genetic diversity to human development
Rachel Hurst
Development 49: 101-106; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100320
Technology, Health, Impairment and Disability: An historical overview
Reflects on health, impairment and disability in the context of the technological evolution and development
Pia Rockhold
Development 49: 107-113; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100312
Local/Global Encounters
Nanomedicine, Poverty and Development
Warns that nanomedicine may well widen further the gap between haves and have-nots.
Noela Invernizzi and Guillermo Foladori
Development 49: 114-118; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100301
Disasters, Disability and Technology
Appeals for international standards to be set for disability in disaster management and response
Ashok Hans and Reena Mohanty
Development 49: 119-122; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100302
Gender, Technology and Disability in the South
Explores the impact of new technologies on women with disabilities
Asha Hans
Development 49: 123-127; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100306
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in India
Reflects on health, impairment and disability in the context of the technological evolution and development
Manjeer Mukherjee and Sarojini B Nadimipally
Development 49: 128-134; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100303
Gender and the New Reproductive Technologies in Latin America
Illustrates how new reproductive technologies are impacting upon women's bodies, tissues, reproductive capacities and rights
Liliana Acero
Development 49: 135-140; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100319
Book Review
Bio-economies: Bio wealth from the inside out
Examines two key books that critique the commercialising of nature
Sarah Franklin
Development 49: 141-143; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100304
Book Shelf
Book Shelf
Describes the latest literature in the field
Development 49: 144-146; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100307
Window on the World
Window on the World FREE
Gives an annotated list of some of the civil society and research groups working on biotechnologies
Development 49: 147-152; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100308
Who's Who
Who's Who
Lists contact details of authors
Development 49: 153-157; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100317
