The Natural and the Social - Uncertainty, Risk, Change (Paperback, New)

Should our jobs depend on our genes?
If humanity started global warming can humanity stop it?
The age if which people in the West have treated society and nature as essentially separate matters is at an end. In a world in which our control over the environment has proved illusory even as our ability to manipulate nature - both our own and that of other species - grows, the distinction between the natural and the social is becoming ever more blurred. Environmental changed and degradation impinge on all our lives, and even our genes are increasingly seen by employers and insurers as commodities. The Natural and the Social: Uncertainty, Risk and Change draws on insights form across the social sciences - from psychology, economics, geography as well as sociology - to examine the changing character of these interrelations between society and nature. It examines particularly genes and identity, medical practices and health, market solutions to environmental problems and the management of risk.
Throughout students are encouraged also to draw on their own experiences to understand the theoretical and practical problems of living in this new natural-and-social world.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Understanding Social Change
Release date:	March 2000
First published:	September 2000
Editors:	Steve Hinchliffe • Kath Woodward
Dimensions:	246 x 189 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-22290-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Social impact of environmental issues > General
LSN:	0-415-22290-7
Barcode:	9780415222907

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