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Biotechnology Policy Across National Boundaries

The Science-Industrial Complex

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-349-53380-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us
Erscheinungstermin: 15.06.2007
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A globalization of innovation has produced the most massive spurt in biotechnology in world history.  Businesses, universities, and non-governmental organizations are collaborating to produce a "science-industrial complex" in biotechnology.  Using case studies of stem cell research, cloning, genetically modified food, in-vitro fertilization, and chimeras in a number of Eastern and Western countries around the world, I argue that much of this biotech activity is global in nature and independent of state control.  This shift in the relative influence of state and non-state actors has led to the virtual deregulation of biotechnology and the liberation of innovation from geo-political constraints.  These trends post a number of interesting social, political, and ethical issues for the contemporary period and suggest the need to rethink how controversial moral issues are handled by the science-industrial complex.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781349533800
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-349-53380-0
  • Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us
  • Erscheinungstermin: 15.06.2007
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2007. Auflage 2007
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 268 g
  • Seiten: 192
  • Format (B x H x T): 140 x 216 x 12 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Preface * The Globalization of Innovation * Science-Industry Collaboration * In-Vitro Fertilization and Assisted Reproductive Technology * Genetically Modified Food * Cloning * Stem Cell Research * Chimeras * Whose Ethical Standards?