Download or read book Towards Humane Technologies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the ethical and political implications when the very foundations of life—things of awe and spiritual significance—are translated into products accessible to few people? This book critically analyses this historic recontextualisation. Through mediation—when meaning moves ‘from one text to another, from one discourse to another’—biotechnology is transformed into analysable data and into public discourses.