SOCIAL THEORY AND HUMAN BIOTECHNOLOGY -- SOCIAL THEORY AND HUMAN BIOTECHNOLOGY -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABSTRACT -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- TRANSITIONS IN SOCIAL THEORY -- FOUR 'CARDINAL SINS' -- Reductionism -- Essentialism -- Reification -- Functional Teleology -- METATHEORY AND PROBLEMS OF RELATIVISM -- THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT AND FOUCAULDIAN 'POWER' -- AGENCY AND SOCIAL ACTORS -- ARCHER, LAYDER AND MOUZELIS: POST-POSTMODERN THEORISTS -- A. Margaret Archer -- B. Nicos Mouzelis -- C. Derek Layder -- A POST-POSTMODERN METATHEORETICAL FRAMEWORK? -- CODIFICATION OF THE METATHEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- 'BUILDING BRIDGES' -- EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY AND 'NATURE VIA NURTURE' -- DUALITY VERSUS DUALISM REVISITED -- INCORPORATING THE BIOLOGICAL VARIABLE -- HUMAN BIOTECHNOLOGY: SELECTED ISSUES AND IMPLICATIONS -- THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT -- RISK AND GOVERNANCE -- HUMAN BIOTECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS -- Artificial Insemination -- Egg Donation -- Prenatal Diagnosis of Genetic Disorders -- Pregnancy Termination of 'Defective' Fetuses -- The Eugenic Implications of Prenatal Diagnosis -- Embryo Selection -- Genetic Engineering -- Cloning -- Human Biotechnology: A Form of 'New' Eugenics? -- FURTHER ETHICAL CONCERNS AND HUMAN BIOTECHNOLOGY -- Artificial Insemination -- Egg Donation -- Prenatal Diagnosis -- Embryo Selection -- Selection for Sex -- Cloning -- Gene Therapy -- BIO-MEDICAL DISCOURSE -- AN APPLICATION OF THE METATHEORETICAL FRAMEWORK TO THE STUDY OF HUMAN BIOTECHNOLOGY -- THE META-THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- REIFICATION -- ESSENTIALISM -- FUNCTIONAL TELEOLOGY -- REDUCTIONISM -- GENETIC FATALISM -- THE OVERSOCIALISED GAZE -- THE BIOLOGICAL VARIABLE -- POWER -- DUALISM -- AGENCY-STRUCTURE, MICRO-MACRO, TIME-SPACE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.