ALTERED GENES - Reconstructiong Nature: The Debate

Edited by
Richard Hindmarsh, Geoffrey Lawrence and Janet Norton

Introduction by David Suzuki

This exciting book offers a well-researched, highly readable and thought-provoking
account of the issues arising from genetic engineering.  Although cloned sheep,
headless frog embryos and blue roses sound like they come from the realm of
science fiction, they are becoming reality as biological frontiers are being redrawn
by genetic engineering.
This technology threatens to disrupt evolution, to usher in mew forms of social control,
and to challenge the traditional notion of what food is.  It is already provoking intense
ethical, social and ecological debates worldwide, yet the public has been overly shield-
ed from these debates by restricted information.
In fourteen essays by Australian and New Zealand specialists and with a stimulating
introduction by award-winning scientist David Suzuki, this book provides the back-
ground to, and raises the questions for, an informed public debate on the subject.
            

CONTENTS

Gene-biotechnology: The state and Australia's agri-food industries
Wearing out your genes?  The case of transgenic cotton
Throwing up concerns about novel foods
Genetic engineering: The campaign frontier

155x230mm.   228Pgs.   Allen & Unwin, Australia