02978nam 2200601 a 450 991045453080332120210114094734.01-84964-493-41-281-72528-597866117252801-4356-6068-4(CKB)1000000000533546(StDuBDS)AH22933781(SSID)ssj0000112457(PQKBManifestationID)11142595(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000112457(PQKBWorkID)10087275(PQKB)10573951(MiAaPQ)EBC3386339(EXLCZ)99100000000053354620120618d2005 my 0engur|||||||||||txtccrBiotechnology[electronic resource] Corporate Power Versus the Public Interest /by Steven P. McGiffenS.l. Pluto Press20051 online resource (256 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7453-1974-2 0-7453-1975-0 Frankenfoods, designer babies, Dolly the Sheep and Raelian fantasists: few subjects generate as much controversy and misinformation as biotechnology. This book takes the reader behind the headlines to examine the new laws on genetic-based technologies, who's making them, and why. Steven P. McGiffen offers a lucid analysis of the real implications of biotechnology legislation in the US and the EU, and contrasts it with approaches to agricultural and medical biotech in the rest of the world. He argues that the EU and America are removing decision-making power from the people and their elected representatives. Biotechnology regulation is a local manifestation of a global process of transferring power: from the people to corporations, from poor countries to rich ones, from the public to the private.He shows that biotechnology demands effective and democratic international decision-making procedures -- and that we are very far from achieving them. Ideal for the general reader, this is an indispensable guide for activists and anyone who wants to know more about how to control biotech regulation and how to resist handing control of our future to corporations.BiotechnologyGovernment policyBiotechnologyLaw and legislationMechanical EngineeringHILCCEngineering & Applied SciencesHILCCBioengineeringHILCCElectronic books.lcshBiotechnologyGovernment policyBiotechnologyLaw and legislationMechanical EngineeringEngineering & Applied SciencesBioengineering660.6McGiffen Steven P917201StDuBDSStDuBDSUkPrAHLSBOOK9910454530803321Biotechnology2056250UNINA