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Author : Raymond Dobert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Biotechnology, International Affairs written by Raymond Dobert and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan M. Russell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719058684
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)
Download or read book The International Politics of Biotechnology written by Alan M. Russell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are three sections. The first considers the nature of the science itself, the normative questions rasied and the significance of gender responses. Following these broad issues, the second section addresses biotechnology in relation to international policial economy, trade and the environment, highlighting the politics of food and patents. The final section tackles the question of biological knowledge applied to weapons and the global responses.
Author : Thomas C. Wiegele
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 9780813010557
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)
Download or read book Biotechnology and International Relations written by Thomas C. Wiegele and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few public policy makers today pay attention to a fundamental development in human history, the emergence of the age of modern biotechnology. Comparing this era to a second industrial revolution, Wiegele examines the points at which international politics and biotechnology intersect.
Author : R. Falkner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230598196
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food written by R. Falkner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genetically modified food is at the heart of a new global conflict over how to govern risky technologies in an era of globalization. This timely collection brings together experts from the fields of IR, environmental studies, trade and law to examine the sources of international friction and to explore the prospects for international co-operation.
Author : Eugene Thacker
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262250306
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Global Genome written by Eugene Thacker and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-09-08 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How global biotechnology is redefining "life itself." In the age of global biotechnology, DNA can exist as biological material in a test tube, as a sequence in a computer database, and as economically valuable information in a patent. In The Global Genome, Eugene Thacker asks us to consider the relationship of these three entities and argues that—by their existence and their interrelationships—they are fundamentally redefining the notion of biological life itself. Biological science and the biotech industry are increasingly organized at a global level, in large part because of the use of the Internet in exchanging biological data. International genome sequencing efforts, genomic databases, the development of World Intellectual Property policies, and the "borderless" business of biotech are all evidence of the global intersections of biology and informatics—of genetic codes and computer codes. Thacker points out the internal tension in the very concept of biotechnology: the products are more "tech" than "bio," but the technology itself is fully biological, composed of the biomaterial labor of genes, proteins, cells, and tissues. Is biotechnology a technology at all, he asks, or is it a notion of "life itself" that is inseparable from its use in the biotech industry? The three sections of the book cover the three primary activities of biotechnology today: the encoding of biological materials into digital form—as in bioinformatics and genomics; its recoding in various ways—including the "biocolonialism" of mapping genetically isolated ethnic populations and the newly pervasive concern over "biological security"; and its decoding back into biological materiality—as in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Thacker moves easily from science to philosophy to political economics, enlivening his account with ideas from such thinkers as Georges Bataille, Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, Antonio Negri, and Paul Virilio. The "global genome," says Thacker, makes it impossible to consider biotechnology without the context of globalism.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Role of Biotechnology in Combating Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309089778
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years much has happened to justify an examination of biological research in light of national security concerns. The destructive application of biotechnology research includes activities such as spreading common pathogens or transforming them into even more lethal forms. Policymakers and the scientific community at large must put forth a vigorous and immediate response to this challenge. This new book by the National Research Council recommends that the government expand existing regulations and rely on self-governance by scientists rather than adopt intrusive new policies. One key recommendation of the report is that the government should not attempt to regulate scientific publishing but should trust scientists and journals to screen their papers for security risks, a task some journals have already taken up. With biological information and tools widely distributed, regulating only U.S. researchers would have little effect. A new International Forum on Biosecurity should encourage the adoption of similar measures around the world. Seven types of risky studies would require approval by the Institutional Biosafety Committees that already oversee recombinant DNA research at some 400 U.S. institutions. These "experiments of concern" include making an infectious agent more lethal and rendering vaccines powerless.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309164753
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of the Life Sciences written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-06-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biomedical advances have made it possible to identify and manipulate features of living organisms in useful ways-leading to improvements in public health, agriculture, and other areas. The globalization of scientific and technical expertise also means that many scientists and other individuals around the world are generating breakthroughs in the life sciences and related technologies. The risks posed by bioterrorism and the proliferation of biological weapons capabilities have increased concern about how the rapid advances in genetic engineering and biotechnology could enable the production of biological weapons with unique and unpredictable characteristics. Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of Life Sciences examines current trends and future objectives of research in public health, life sciences, and biomedical science that contain applications relevant to developments in biological weapons 5 to 10 years into the future and ways to anticipate, identify, and mitigate these dangers.
Author : David Malet
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781442268906
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Biotechnology and International Security written by David Malet and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contextualizes the militarization of biotechnology by examining its strategic uses throughout history, how genetic engineering has changed the nature of bioweapons, and its impact on warfare and security.
Author : D. West
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230605680
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book Biotechnology Policy across National Boundaries written by D. West and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
