Screen LibraryEmerging technologies：from hindsight to foresight
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UBC Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Vancouver |
| Publication Dates: | c2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | vii, 343 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780774815482 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0774815485 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780774815499 (pbk.) 0774815493 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | T |
| CLC: | T-05 |
| Call Number: | T-05/E535 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 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. |