Biotechnology Policy Across National Boundaries: The Science-Industrial Complex (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403972514)

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: 1403972516
ISBN-13: 9781403972514
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2007
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2008 pg. 1234