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Pharming : promises and risks of biopharmaceuticals derived from genetically modified plants and animals / E. Rehbinder ... [et al.].

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Pharming : promises and risks of biopharmaceuticals derived from genetically modified plants and animals / E. Rehbinder ... [et al.].
Publication
Berlin : Springer, c2009.

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Additional Authors
Rehbinder, Eckard.
Description
xx, 332 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Ethics of science and technology assessment, 1860-4803 ; v. 35
Uniform Title
Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung Bd. 35.
Alternative Title
Promises and risks of biopharmaceuticals derived from genetically modified plants and animals
Subject
  • Genetic Engineering > ethics
  • Risk Assessment
  • Plants, Genetically Modified
  • Animals, Genetically Modified
  • Recombinant Proteins > biosynthesis
  • Biopharmaceutics > methods
  • Pharmaceutical biotechnology
  • Biopharmaceutics
  • Transgenic animals
  • Transgenic plants
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The technology of pharming -- 3. Risk assessment of plant pharming and animal pharming -- 4. The welfare of pharming animals -- 5. public views and attitudes to pharming -- 6. The ethical evaluation of pharming -- 7. The role of patents in the development of pharming -- 8. Legal problems of pharming -- 9. Conclusions and recommendations -- Glossary -- Appendix : examples of GM pharmaceutical crops and animals.
ISBN
9783540857921 (hd.bd.)
OCLC
429902384
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library