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1 online resource (vii, 343 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Making sense of emerging technologies / Edna F. Einsiedel -- GM foods in Hindsight / William K. Hallman -- Patentable Subject Matter: Who Owns What Knowledge? / Inka B. Onwuekwe -- Patents in the Public Sphere : Public Perceptions and Biotechnology Patents / Edna F. Einsiedel -- Of Biotechnology and Blind Chickens / Paul B. Thompson -- Transgentic Salmon: Regulatory Oversight of an Anticipated Technology / Emily Marden, Holly Longstaff, and Ed Levy -- The Emerging Technology of Plant Molecular Farming / Michele Veeman -- Policy and Regulatory Challenges for Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals in the United States / Patrick A. Stewart -- Forestalling Liabilities? Stakeholder Participation and Regulatory Development / Stuart Smyth -- In the Stem Cell Fields When Human Dignity Is Not Enough : Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning in Canada / Tania Bubela and Timothy Caulfield -- Banking on trust : Issues of Informed Consent in Pharmacogenetic Research / Rose Geransar -- Pharmacogenomic Promises : Reflections on Semantics, Genohype, and Global Justice / Bryn Williams-Jones and Vural Ozdemir -- Envisioning Race and Medicine : BiDil and the Insufficient Match between Social Groups and Genotypes / Benjamin R. Bates -- Nanotechnology and Human Imagination / Susanna Hornig Priest -- Nanotechnology : The Policy Challenges. |
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Loraine Sheremeta -- Technology, Democracy, and Ethics : Democratic Deficit and the Ethics of Public Engagement / Michael Burgess and James Tansey -- Impact Assessments and Emerging Technologies: From Precaution to "Smart Regulation"? / Jacopo Torriti -- Technology Ownership and Governance : An Alternative View of IPRs / Peter W.B. Phillips -- Reflections on Emerging Technologies / Edna F. Einsiedel. |
| Summary |
Annotation New technologies emerge all the time. Some technologies, however, are transformative: they introduce new forms of control, both through formal systems of regulation and by informally shaping our behavior. They have profound impacts and are often disruptive; they affect the way we work and play; they influence our mobility and lifestyle. They offer hope and possibility while introducing new fears and unintended consequences. Too often our social reactions to new technologies occur only in hindsight, after the technology has penetrated the marketplace. However, recent experience teaches that much may be gained by practicing forethought and foresight. Contributors to this collection examine the development, impact, and governance of new technologies emerging from a variety of fields, including biotechnology, genetics, stem cell research, pharmacology, and nanotechnology. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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Technology -- Social aspects. |
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Nanotechnology.
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Nanotechnology. |
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects. |
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Genomics.
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Genomics. |
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Biotechnology.
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Biotechnology. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Einsiedel, Edna F.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Emerging technologies. Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2009 9780774815482 (DLC) 2009288089 (OCoLC)242050409 |
| ISBN |
9780774815505 (ebook) |
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0774815507 (ebook) |
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9780774815482 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0774815485 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780774815499 (paperback) |
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0774815493 (paperback) |
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