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Emerging Technologies
From Hindsight to Foresight
Edna Einsiedel (Edited by)
9780774815499
Paperback / softback, published 1 July 2009
384 pages, 5 charts and 11 tables.
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.54 kg
How should we think about these radical technologies? Too often our social reactions to new technologies occur only in hindsight, after a technology has penetrated the marketplace. However, recent experience teaches that much may be gained by practising forethought and foresight. Emerging Technologies addresses the ethical, legal, and social dimensions of emerging technologies and assesses their social and policy implications. Contributors examine the development, impact, and governance of new technologies emerging from a variety of fields, including biotechnology, genetics, stem cell research, pharmacology, and nanotechnology.
Introduction: Making Sense of Emerging Technologies / Edna F. Einsiedel Part 1: Hindsight Learnings 1 GM Foods in Hindsight / William Hallman 2 Patentable Subject Matter: Who Owns What Knowledge? / Chika B. Onwuekwe 3 Patents in the Public Sphere: Public Perceptions and Biotechnology Patents / Edna F. Einsiedel Part 2: Foresight Applications (Transgenic) Animal Farm 4 Of Biotechnology and Blind Chickens / Paul B. Thompson 5 Transgenic Salmon: Regulatory Oversight of an Anticipated Technology / Emily Marden, Holly Longstaff, and Ed Levy Fields of Pharmas: Plant Molecular Farming 6 The Emerging Technology of Plant Molecular Farming / Michele Veeman 7 Policy and Regulatory Challenges for Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals in the United States / Patrick A. Stewart 8 Forestalling Liabilities? Stakeholder Participation and Regulatory Development / Stuart Smyth In the Stem Cell Fields 9 When Human Dignity Is Not Enough: Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning in Canada / Tania Bubela and Timothy Caulfield Drugs – Up Close and Personal: Engaging Pharmacogenomics 10 Banking on Trust: Issues of Informed Consent in Pharmacogenetic Research / Rose Geransar 11 Pharmacogenomic Promises: Reflections on Semantics, Genohype, and Global Justice / Bryn Williams-Jones and Vural Ozdemir 12 Envisioning Race and Medicine: BiDil and the Insufficient Match between Social Groups and Genotypes / Benjamin R. Bates Is Small Really Beautiful? Does Size Matter? Nanotechnologies 13 Nanotechnology and Human Imagination / Susanna Hornig Priest 14 Nanotechnology: The Policy Challenges / Lorraine Sheremeta Part 3: Governance Challenges and Emerging Technologies 15 Technology, Democracy, and Ethics: Democratic Deficit and the Ethics of Public Engagement / Michael Burgess and James Tansey 16 Impact Assessments and Emerging Technologies: From Precaution to "Smart Regulation"? / Jacopo Torriti 17 Technology Ownership and Governance: An Alternative View of IPRs / Peter W.B. Phillips 18 Conclusion: Reflections on Emerging Technologies / Edna F. Einsiedel Index