International Governance of Biotechnology: Needs, Problems and Potential (Science Ethics and Society)
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Catherine Rhodes (Author)
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The significant media coverage recently given to issues such as the international impacts of biofuel production policies, advances in synthetic biology, and the ethical implications of research involving embryonic stem cells, is indicative of the high-level of interest - among policy-makers, academics and the public - in the biotechnology revolution, its applications, impacts and control. There is also significant interest in international regulatory processes as a form of governance, and international regulation is a vital part of efforts to manage the impacts of the biotechnology revolution, since many of these are global in their nature. The book establishes the need for international regulation of biotechnology, identifying the roles it needs to play, and the issues it needs to cover. Having outlined the importance of coherence to the effective functioning of international regulatory sets, a model of coherent international regulation is established, against which the biotechnology regulations can be assessed.
This book approaches the subject from an international relations perspective but also draws from, and will contribute to, literature in the fields of international law, global governance, technological governance, and science-society relations. None
About the Author
Catherine Rhodes is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester. She was previously Research Fellow at the Bradford Disarmament Research Centre, Departments of Peace Studies, Bradford University. She has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Brocher Foundation, Geneva and worked as a regulatory consultant for LG Ltd on a major European Commission project on biotechnology regulation.
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- Contributor: Catherine Rhodes
- Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN13: 9781849660655
- Number of Pages: 224
- Packaged Dimensions: 156x234x21mm
- Packaged Weight: 505
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Release Date: 2010-12-02
- Series: Science Ethics and Society
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Catherine Rhodes is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester. She was previously Research Fellow at the Bradford Disarmament Research Centre, Departments of Peace Studies, Bradford University. She has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Brocher Foundation, Geneva and worked as a regulatory consultant for LG Ltd on a major European Commission project on biotechnology regulation.
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