This text aims to provide the specialist and non-specialist reader with an overview of emergent technologies such as new drugs, fertilizers, crops, animals and new reproductive techniques in humans. Based on articles from scientists and commentators in the field, this book looks at the whole range of key issues including: the technologies themselves and their future; their application in industry; the diffusion of technologies across institutions and borders; and the impact of key technologies on individuals and society.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 246 mm
Breite: 189 mm
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978-0-631-19596-2 (9780631195962)
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Herausgeber*in
Professor of International Relations, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Research Fellow, Netherlands Royal Acadmey of Sciences and Arts, Netherlands
The technologies; applications of biotechnology; the diffusion of biotechnology; regulation of biotechnology; impacts of biotechnology; policy - the role of the state in biotechnology; Third World and biotechnology - promises and pitfalls; company profiles.
