Research Catalog

Title

Genetically modified foods : debating biotechnology / edited by Michael Ruse, David Castle.

Publication

Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Castle, David, 1967-
• Ruse, Michael

Description

355 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary issues

Uniform Title

Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.)

Subject

• Agricultural biotechnology
• Biotechnology
• Food Technology
• Food, Genetically Modified
• Genetically modified foods

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-352) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain
• committed to retain

Contents

• Reith lecture 2000 / HRH the Prince of Wales -- An open letter to Prince Charles / Richard Dawkins -- Biotechnology food : from the lab to a debacle / Kurt Eichenwald et al. -- The green revolution strikes gold / Mary Lou Guerinot -- Engineering the Provitamin A ([beta]-carotene) biosynthetic pathway in (carotenoid-free) rice endosperm / Xudong Ye et al. -- Genetically engineered "golden rice" is fool's gold / Greenpeace -- Golden rice and the Greenpeace dilemma / Ingo Potrykus -- Golden rice hoax : when public relations replace science / Vandana Shiva -- Open letter to Greenpeace / Gordon Conway -- Bioethics issues in a biobased economy / Paul B. Thompson -- Real and metaphorical moral limits in the biotech debate / Marc A. Saner -- Food for thought : the primacy of the moral in the GMO debate / David Magnus and Arthur Caplan -- Ethics and genetically modified foods / Gary Comstock -- Jubilee of the agricultural world / Pope John Paul II --^
• Genetically modified crops / Joe N. Perry -- Genetically modified food and Jewish law (Halakhah) / Carl Feit -- Franken- : a monstrous prefix is stalking Europe / William Safire -- Biotech foods : right to know what? / Peter Spencer -- Uninformation and the choice paradox / Alan McHughen -- Intellectual property rights in genetically modified agriculture : the shock of the not-so-new / Jack Wilson -- Merging business and ethics : new models for using biotechnological intellectual property / E. Richard Gold -- Returning to normal : can corrective justice be achieved when genetically modified salmon escape and do damage? / Keith Culver -- The concept of substantial equivalence : its historical development and current use / Nick Tomlinson -- Substantial equivalence : its uses and abuses / Henry Miller -- Genetic engineering and the allergy issue / Bob B. Buchanan -- Applications of biotechnology to crops : benefits and risks / Gabrielle J. Persley and James N. Siedow --^
• The tragedy of the commoners : biotechnology and its publics : Ambuj Sagar, Arthur Daemmrich, and Mona Ashiya -- Risk prevention and the political control of genetic engineering : lessons from a participatory technology assessment on transgenic herbicide-resistant crops / Wolfgang van den Daele -- Protecting the environment : from nucleons to nucleotides / Florence Dagicour -- Applying the precautionary principle to genetically modified crops / Indur M. Goklany -- Precaution without principle / Henry I. Miller and Gregory Conko -- 'Twixt cup and lip : biotechnology and resource-poor farmers / Robert Tripp -- Why Africa needs agricultural biotech / Florence Wambugu -- Bridging the genetic divide / Calestous Juma and Karen Fang -- When transgenes wander, should we worry? / Norman C. Ellstrand -- GM crops and equivocal environmental benefits / Brian Johnson and Anna Hope -- Much food, many problems / Anthony Trewavas.

ISBN

1573929964 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002070510

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library