Biotechnology

Would your body work better with some artificial parts? Will you live longer, perhaps a lot longer, than you now expect? The next decade promises another qualitative shift in the way we view technology, as once purely fictional concepts—robots, cyborg parts, and the many variations in between—become part of reality.
Beyond Human treats …

Biotechnology may raise more hope and fear...revelation and confusion...excitement and alarm...than any other term in today's headlines. Scientist and skilled science popularizer Eric Grace helps the reader understand what biotechnology is and what implications it holds for all of us.

Designer Animals is an in-depth study of the debates surrounding the development of animal biotechnology, which is quickly emerging out of the laboratory and into the commercial marketplace. This book innovatively combines expert analysis on the technology's economic, professional, ethical, and religious implications while remaining firmly grounded …

Techniques of genetic engineering are changing the role of living things in the Production process. From rabbits that produce human pharmaceuticals in their milk to plants that produce plastics and other building materials in their leaves, life itself is increasingly harnessed as a force of industry - a living factory. What do these cutting edge de …

For decades, government, industry, and the mainstream media haveextolled the virtues of biotechnology while downplaying its negativeside effects. Focusing on agriculture, Resistance Is Fertilechallenges this dominant rhetoric by analyzing the major issues aroundwhich opponents of biotechnology in Canada are mobilizingresistance – namely, the encl …