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From Hindsight to Foresight
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Edna Einsiedel
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$85.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 12/20/2008
ISBN: 9780774815482
$34.95 Paperback
Release Date: 7/1/2009
ISBN: 9780774815499
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About the Book
New technologies emerge all the time. Some technologies, however, are transformative: they introduce new forms of control, both through formal systems of regulation and by informally shaping our behaviour. They have profound impacts and are often disruptive; they affect the way we work and play; they influence our mobility and lifestyle. They offer hope and possibility while introducing new fears and unintended consequences.
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.
About the Author(s)
Edna F. Einsiedel is University Professor and professor of Communication Studies at the University of Calgary
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
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
List of Contributors
Index
Reviews
Sample Chapter
Introduction & Chapter 1
Related Topics
Technology
Sociology
Public Policy
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