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BIOTECH JUGGERNAUT: HOPE, HYPE, AND HIDDEN AGENDAS OF By Tina Stevens & Stuart
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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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- Paperback
- Publication Name
- Routledge
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- 1138043230
- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
1138043230
ISBN-13
9781138043237
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242539330
Product Key Features
Book Title
Biotech Juggernaut : Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial Bioscience
Number of Pages
206 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Biotechnology, Sociology / General, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics
Genre
Social Science, Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-396665
Reviews
Stevens and Newman's deep familiarity with the events and issues is on clear display in Biotech Juggernaut . Many books address issues in bioscience, yet fall short of the authors' rich historical and institutional analysis and their especially illuminating case studies. Even fewer are written with such enlightening critical perspective. Elaine Draper, Professor of Sociology, California State University, Los Angeles Stevens' and Newman's keen insights are grounded both in a long view - putting biotech and its societal implications in broad historical context - and a close-up one, as they recount their personal encounters with the biotech juggernaut in scientific, legal, policy, and advocacy settings. Their stories demonstrate the sweeping commercialization of the biotechnology enterprise, its routine conflicts of interest, and its tendency to exaggerate benefits and minimize hazards. At a time when headlines blare claims of gene-edited babies, their challenge and their guidance are indispensable. Marcy Darnovsky, PhD, Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society Biotech Juggernaut is a compelling exposé of high stakes discoveries in genetics with unrealistic expectations pushed prematurely into clinical applications. The authors take on the quintessential hubris of scientists who thumb their nose at evolution, taking it upon themselves, in the face of broad public opposition, to redesign the human genome opening the door to eugenics. Sheldon Krimsky, Lenore Stern Professor of Humanities & Social Sciences and Adjunct Professor of Public Health & Community Medicine, Tuft University, and author of GMOs Decoded, Stevens and Newman's deep familiarity with the events and issues is on clear display in Biotech Juggernaut . Many books address issues in bioscience yet fall short of the authors' rich historical and institutional analysis and their especially illuminating case studies. Even fewer are written with such enlightening critical perspective. Elaine Draper, Professor of Sociology, California State University, Los Angeles
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
660.6
Table Of Content
Acknowledgements Prologue: A Shared Encounter 1. Introduction: The Biotech Juggernaut 2. The Dawn of GM Humans 3. California Cloning ¿ The Campaign 4. California Cloning ¿ The Aftermath 5. Synthetic Biology: Extreme Genetic Engineering 6. The Road to Gattaca 7. Concluding Reflections Appendices Glossary Index
Synopsis
Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience relates the intensifying effort of bioentrepreneurs to apply genetic engineering technologies to the human species and to extend the commercial reach of synthetic biology or "extreme genetic engineering." In 1980, legal developments concerning patenting laws transformed scientific researchers into bioentrepreneurs. Often motivated to create profit-driven biotech start-up companies or to serve on their advisory boards, university researchers now commonly operate under serious conflicts of interest. These conflicts stand in the way of giving full consideration to the social and ethical consequences of the technologies they seek to develop. Too often, bioentrepreneurs have worked to obscure how these technologies could alter human evolution and to hide the social costs of keeping on this path. Tracing the rise and cultural politics of biotechnology from a critical perspective, Biotech Juggernaut aims to correct the informational imbalance between producers of biotechnologies on the one hand, and the intended consumers of these technologies and general society, on the other. It explains how the converging vectors of economic, political, social, and cultural elements driving biotechnology¿s swift advance constitutes a juggernaut. It concludes with a reflection on whether it is possible for an informed public to halt what appears to be a runaway force., Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience relates the intensifying effort of bioentrepreneurs to apply genetic engineering technologies to the human species and to extend the commercial reach of synthetic biology or "extreme genetic engineering." In 1980, legal developments concerning patenting laws transformed scientific researchers into bioentrepreneurs. Often motivated to create profit-driven biotech start-up companies or to serve on their advisory boards, university researchers now commonly operate under serious conflicts of interest. These conflicts stand in the way of giving full consideration to the social and ethical consequences of the technologies they seek to develop. Too often, bioentrepreneurs have worked to obscure how these technologies could alter human evolution and to hide the social costs of keeping on this path. Tracing the rise and cultural politics of biotechnology from a critical perspective, Biotech Juggernaut aims to correct the informational imbalance between producers of biotechnologies on the one hand, and the intended consumers of these technologies and general society, on the other. It explains how the converging vectors of economic, political, social, and cultural elements driving biotechnology's swift advance constitutes a juggernaut. It concludes with a reflection on whether it is possible for an informed public to halt what appears to be a runaway force.
LC Classification Number
TP248.2
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