The Biotechnology revolution?

Author(s)

• Fransman, Martin
• Junne, Gerd
• Roobeek, Annemieke J. M.

Bibliographic Information

The Biotechnology revolution?

edited by Martin Fransman, Gerd Junne and Annemieke Roobeek

Blackwell Publishers, 1995

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• 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.

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Details

• NCID: BA24283570
• ISBN:
  • 0631195963
• LCCN: 94006313
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 547 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : TP248.2
  • DC20 : 660/.6
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Biotechnology