Biotechnology Policy Across National Boundaries: The Science-Industrial Complex (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349533800)

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.

Author: D. West
ISBN-10: 1349533807
ISBN-13: 9781349533800
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2007
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d