Overview

How should we think about these radical technologies? Too often our social reactions to new technologies occur only in hindsight, after a technology has penetrated the marketplace. However, recent experience teaches that much may be gained by practising forethought and foresight. Emerging Technologies addresses the ethical, legal, and social dimensions of emerging technologies and assesses their social and policy implications. Contributors examine the development, impact, and governance of new technologies emerging from a variety of fields, including biotechnology, genetics, stem cell research, pharmacology, and nanotechnology.

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Author:   Edna F. Einsiedel
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780774815499

ISBN 10:   0774815493
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   01 July 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Making Sense of Emerging Technologies / Edna F. Einsiedel Part 1: Hindsight Learnings 1 GM Foods in Hindsight / William Hallman 2 Patentable Subject Matter: Who Owns What Knowledge? / Chika B. Onwuekwe 3 Patents in the Public Sphere: Public Perceptions and Biotechnology Patents / Edna F. Einsiedel Part 2: Foresight Applications (Transgenic) Animal Farm 4 Of Biotechnology and Blind Chickens / Paul B. Thompson 5 Transgenic Salmon: Regulatory Oversight of an Anticipated Technology / Emily Marden, Holly Longstaff, and Ed Levy Fields of Pharmas: Plant Molecular Farming 6 The Emerging Technology of Plant Molecular Farming / Michele Veeman 7 Policy and Regulatory Challenges for Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals in the United States / Patrick A. Stewart 8 Forestalling Liabilities? Stakeholder Participation and Regulatory Development / Stuart Smyth In the Stem Cell Fields 9 When Human Dignity Is Not Enough: Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning in Canada / Tania Bubela and Timothy Caulfield Drugs – Up Close and Personal: Engaging Pharmacogenomics 10 Banking on Trust: Issues of Informed Consent in Pharmacogenetic Research / Rose Geransar 11 Pharmacogenomic Promises: Reflections on Semantics, Genohype, and Global Justice / Bryn Williams-Jones and Vural Ozdemir 12 Envisioning Race and Medicine: BiDil and the Insufficient Match between Social Groups and Genotypes / Benjamin R. Bates Is Small Really Beautiful? Does Size Matter? Nanotechnologies 13 Nanotechnology and Human Imagination / Susanna Hornig Priest 14 Nanotechnology: The Policy Challenges / Lorraine Sheremeta Part 3: Governance Challenges and Emerging Technologies 15 Technology, Democracy, and Ethics: Democratic Deficit and the Ethics of Public Engagement / Michael Burgess and James Tansey 16 Impact Assessments and Emerging Technologies: From Precaution to “Smart Regulation”? / Jacopo Torriti 17 Technology Ownership and Governance: An Alternative View of IPRs / Peter W.B. Phillips 18 Conclusion: Reflections on Emerging Technologies / Edna F. Einsiedel Index

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An important contribution for scholars interested in the philosophy of science, science studies, and policy/decision-making processes around new technologies. - Toby A. Ten Eyck, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University

""An important contribution for scholars interested in the philosophy of science, science studies, and policy/decision-making processes around new technologies. - Toby A. Ten Eyck, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University""

Author Information

Edna F. Einsiedel is a professor of Communication Studies at the University of Calgary. Contributors: Benjamin R. Bates, Tania Bubela, Michael Burgess, Timothy Caulfield, Edna F. Einsiedel, Rose Geransar, William Hallman, Susanna Hornig Priest, Holly Longstaff, Ed Levy, Emily Marden, Chika B. Onwuekwe, Vural Ozdemir, Peter W.B. Phillips, Lorraine Sheremeta, Patrick A. Stewart, Stuart Smyth, James Tansey, Paul B. Thompson, Jacopo Torriti, Michele Veeman, and Bryn Williams-Jones

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