Description: Biotechnology and the Consumer : A Research Project Sponsored by the Office of Consumer Affairs of Industry Canada, Hardcover by Knoppers, Bartha Maria (EDT); Mathios, Alan D. (EDT), ISBN 0792355415, ISBN-13 9780792355410, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Biotechnology is a rapidly developing sector of the economy for coun tries throughout the world. This rapid development has led to heated debate over its risks and benefits. Advocates of biotechnology point to the potential benefits offered by products that promise to elimi nate disease, provide for more efficient diagnostic techniques, treatments and drugs, yield increased food production, and so forth. Others fear that the rapid developments of this technology have occurred without appropriate consideration having been given to the ethical ramifications, the potential health risks and long-term envi ronmental impacts, implications for income distribution, and potential for abuse. Consumers and producers share concern for the future of biotechnology: the realities and even the perceptions, informed or otherwise. This book is the outcome of a research project on Biotechnology and the Consumer sponsored by the Office of Consumer Affairs of Industry Canada. The project was designed to foster informed public policy on biotechnology and in particular, to contribute to and inform the Canadian government's development of a Canadian Biotechnology Strategy. The Office funded a group of authors to prepare a series of analytical papers on a range of consumer and informational issues related to biotechnology. This project also involved an interim workshop in which the authors presented their papers, and culmi nated in a symposium on Biotechnology and the Consumer Interest, held on September 24-25, 1997, in Ottawa, Canada.
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Number of Pages: Xiv, 509 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Biotechnology and the Consumer
Publisher: Springer
Publication Year: 1999
Subject: Biotechnology, Consumer Behavior, Economics / Microeconomics, Economics / General, Public Policy / Economic Policy
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 70.9 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Science, Business & Economics
Author: Alan Mathios
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
