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Intervention : confronting the real risks of genetic engineering and life on a biotech planet / Denise Caruso.

Title
Intervention : confronting the real risks of genetic engineering and life on a biotech planet / Denise Caruso.
Author
Caruso, Denise.
Publication
San Francisco, CA : The Hybrid Vigor Institute, c2006.

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Details

Description
xii, 252 p.; 23 cm.
Alternative Title
Confronting the real risks of genetic engineering and life on a biotech planet
Subject
  • Biotechnology
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Chemical engineering
  • Genetic Engineering > contraindications
  • Genetic engineering
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-237) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
About the author -- Author's note: Regarding amateurs, stereotypes and source material -- Introduction: (Gene)sis -- What if the experts are wrong? -- Of mice, men, and uncertainty -- The effects of biotech at scale -- The risks of going native -- What gets measured is what matters -- Politics, science, and 'substantial equivalence' -- Silent genes -- The promise of transgenics -- The tricky calculus of cost and benefit -- Our appointed arbiters of risk -- Putting pigs to the test -- What then shall we do? -- Acknowledgments.
ISBN
9780615135533 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2007310111