Genes, cells, and brains : the Promethean promises of the new biology / Hilary and Steven Rose

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From little genetics to big genomics -- Evolutionary theory in the post-genomic age -- Animals first : ethics enters the laboratory -- From state to consumer eugenics -- The North Atlantic bubble -- The global commodification of bioinformation -- The growing pains of regenerative medicine -- The irresistible rise of the neurotechnosciences -- Promethean promises : who benefits?.

"In Genes, Cells and Brains, feminist sociologist Hilary Rose and neuroscientist Steven Rose take on the bioscience industry and its claims. Examining the establishment of biobanks, the rivalries between pulblic and private gene-sequencers, and the rise of stem cell research, they ask why the promised cornucopia of health benefits has failed to emerge and reveal the questionable enterprise that has grown out of bioethics. The human body is becoming a commodity, and the unfulfilled promises of the science be this revolution suggest profound failings in genomics itself" -- front jacket flap.