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RECORD NUMBER: 164 OF 268| Main Title | Intervention : confronting the real risks of genetic engineering and life on a biotech planet / | |||||||||||
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| Author | Caruso, Denise, | |||||||||||
| Publisher | Hybrid Vigor Institute, | |||||||||||
| Year Published | 2006 | |||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 78903979 | |||||||||||
| ISBN | 9780615135533 | |||||||||||
| Subjects | Genetic engineering ; Chemical engineering ; Biotechnology | |||||||||||
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| Collation | xii, 252 pages ; 23 cm | |||||||||||
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Contents Notes | 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. |