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Biotechnology Policy across National Boundaries

The Science-Industrial Complex

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  • © 2007

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  1. Darrell M. West
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Globalization of Innovation

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    Pages 1-13

  3. Science-Industry Collaboration

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    Pages 15-30

  4. In Vitro Fertilization and Assisted Reproductive Technology

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    Pages 31-48

  5. Genetically Modified Food

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    Pages 49-68

  6. Cloning

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    Pages 69-83

  7. Stem Cell Research

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    Pages 85-100

  8. Chimeras

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    Pages 101-114

  9. Pharmaceutical Companies, Biotechnology, and Health Care

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    Pages 115-129

  10. Whose Ethical Standards?

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    Pages 131-143

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 145-192
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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.

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"Darrell West gives us a lucid guidebook to the ethical and policy conflicts in global biotechnology." - John A. Robertson, University of Texas Law School"In a globalized world there are surprisingly few efforts to present a multisectorial and multicultural analysis of biotechnology. Darrell West has succeeded in presenting a stimulating analysis of the way different cultures in geography and profession have constructed a public policy that will shape the 21st and bio-century." - Darryl Macer, Ph.D., Regional Adviser in Social and Human Sciences for Asia and the Pacific, Regional Unit for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP)

About the author

Darrell M. West is the John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and Director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University. He is the author of 14 books on technology policy, mass media, and campaigns and elections. His most recent book is Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance, published in 2005.

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