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Biotechnology Policy Across National Boundaries: The Science-Industrial Complex

Biotechnology Policy Across National Boundaries: The Science-Industrial Complex

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Medical ReferenceBiologyInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1349533807
ISBN13: 9781349533800
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: Jun 15 2007
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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