Cloning Wild Life : Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals / / Carrie Friese

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787557603321
• Autore: Friese Carrie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-8147-2909-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Collana: Biopolitics ; ; 14
• Disciplina: 571.9646
• Soggetti: Endangered species; Cloning
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Debating Cloning -- 2. Making Animals -- 3. Transpositions -- 4. Reproducing Populations -- 5. Genetic Values -- 6. Knowing Endangered Species -- 7. Biodiversities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: The natural world is marked by an ever-increasing loss of varied habitats, a growing number of species extinctions, and a full range of new kinds of dilemmas posed by global warming. At the same time, humans are also working to actively shape this natural world through contemporary bioscience and biotechnology. In Cloning Wild Life, Carrie Friese posits that cloned endangered animals in zoos sit at the apex of these two trends, as humans seek a scientific solution to environmental crisis. Often fraught with controversy, cloning technologies, Friese argues, significantly affect our conceptualizations of and engagements with wildlife and nature. By studying animals at different locations, Friese explores the human practices surrounding the cloning of endangered animals. She visits zoos—the San Diego Zoological Park, the Audubon Center in New Orleans, and the Zoological Society of London—to see cloning and related practices in action, as well as attending academic and medical conferences and interviewing scientists, conservationists, and zookeepers involved in cloning. Ultimately, she concludes that the act of recalibrating nature ; through science is what most disturbs us about cloning animals in captivity, revealing that debates over cloning become, in the end, a site of political struggle between different human groups. Moreover, Friese explores the implications of the social role that animals at the zoo play in the first place—how they are viewed, consumed, and used by humans for our own needs. A unique study uniting sociology and the study of science and technology, Cloning Wild Life demonstrates just how much bioscience reproduces and changes our ideas about the meaning of life itself.

Adverse drug event reporting : the roles of consumers and health-care professionals : workshop summary / / Jeffrey M. Drazen ... [et al], rapporteurs ; Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Board on Health Sciences Policy ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910966003403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2007
• ISBN: 0-309-17979-3; 1-280-84426-4; 9786610844265; 0-309-66330-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (82 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DrazenJeffrey M. <1946->
• Disciplina: 362.29
• Soggetti: Drugs - Side effects; Drug monitoring; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; Drug Monitoring - methods
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Summary of a workshop which took place on November 3 and 4, 2005, in Washington, D.C.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Current adverse event reporting systems -- Active surveillance systems -- Consumer involvement in reporting adverse ; events -- Drug-drug interactions -- Drug labels.
• Sommario/riassunto: Recent concerns about the unexpected adverse effects of marketed drugs, such as COX-2 (cyclooxygenase-2) inhibitors or specific statins, raise concerns not only about reporting these events during premarket studies, but also about the responsibility for ongoing surveillance of drugs once they are on the market. Sometimes serious adverse drug reactions are fully appreciated only after a drug has been on the market for years. Therefore, when a drug is approved and released to the market, large numbers of patients will be exposed before all the potential adverse effects have been identified and thoroughly studied. Currently, there is no clearly defined process for addressing safety questions about drugs after premarketing research has occurred. In November 2005, the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation convened a workshop to explore issues associated with the reporting of ADEs. The workshop addressed the following questions: How can ADEs be effectively identified, particularly when the adverse effects are rare? How can the direct, causal effects of drugs be distinguished from simple associations? How can health-care professionals and their patients' aid in the identification of drug-related adverse events? How can knowledge of ADEs be more effectively used in clinical practice? Adverse Drug Event Reporting reviews current sources of information on adverse drug events, including the FDA's MedWatch program and the AERS, institutional review boards, and the CMS. This report considers the ways that consumers and advocacy groups can be involved in reporting adverse events, and discusses drug interactions, problems with current databases for capturing and evaluating interactions, and difficulties in communicating information about adverse drug interactions. This report also describes new requirements for information contained on drug labels and how labels can be used to communicate information about risks and drug interactions to consumers and practitioners.