Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience - Softcover

Stevens, Tina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138043230 ISBN 13: 9781138043237

Verlag: Routledge, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Tracing the rise and cultural politics of biotechnology from a critical perspective, Biotech Juggernaut examines the intensifying effort of bioentrepreneurs to apply genetic engineering technologies to the human species. It explains how converging vectors of economic, politic, social, and cultural elements are driving biotechnology's swift advance.

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Tina Stevens, Ph.D., is Lecturer Emerita at San Francisco State University, Department of History. She is a co-founder of Alliance for Humane Biotechnology, and the author of Bioethics in America: Origins and Cultural Politics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).

Stuart Newman, Ph.D., is Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at New York Medical College where he studies developmental and evolutionary biology. He was a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics and is co-author of Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo (Cambridge, 2005). He is editor of the journal Biological Theory (Springer).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138043230
• ISBN 13: 9781138043237
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218
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