Emerging Technologies

From Hindsight to Foresight

Buch | Hardcover

384 Seiten

2008
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-1548-2 (ISBN)

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Addresses the ethical, legal, and social dimensions of emerging technologies and assesses their social and policy implications.

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.

Edna F. Einsiedel is a professor of Communication Studies at the University of Calgary. Contributors: Benjamin R. Bates, Tania Bubela, Michael Burgess, Timothy Caulfield, Edna F. Einsiedel, Rose Geransar, William Hallman, Susanna Hornig Priest, Holly Longstaff, Ed Levy, Emily Marden, Chika B. Onwuekwe, Vural Ozdemir, Peter W.B. Phillips, Lorraine Sheremeta, Patrick A. Stewart, Stuart Smyth, James Tansey, Paul B. Thompson, Jacopo Torriti, Michele Veeman, and Bryn Williams-Jones

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

Index

Zusatzinfo	5 charts and 11 tables.
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7748-1548-5 / 0774815485
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-1548-2 / 9780774815482
Zustand	Neuware