A Look Across Continents at the Public & Plant Biotech [Framing Science]

Published: July 27, 2007, 12:53 pm

Oxford University Press has published a new edited volume featuring research on public opinion and media coverage of the plant biotech debate in the US, Europe, Africa, India,and Brazil. The volume is edited by Dominique Brossard and James Shanahan, professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Cornell University respectively, along with Clint Nesbitt, a scientist at USDA. Below is a table of contents. I contributed the chapter on "Where Do Science Debates Come From?," co-authored with Mike Huge, a graduate student I worked with at Ohio State. Table of Contents -Perspectives on communication about agricultural biotechnology. -Public perceptions of agricultural biotechnology in Britain: the case of genetically modified foods. -German reactions to genetic engineering in food production. -Mass media and public perceptions of red and green biotechnology. A case study from Switzerland. -Genetically Modified Foods: U.S. Public Opinion Research Polls. -Biotechnology and consumer

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