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Biotechnology Policy across National Boundaries: The Science-Industrial Complex

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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.
Request Code : ZLIBIO1202755
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Year:
2007
Edition:
First Edition
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Language:
English
Pages:
208
ISBN 10:
1403972516
ISBN 13:
9781403972514
ISBN:
1403972516,9781403972514

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