Emerging Technologies

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

Introduction: Making Sense of Emerging Technologies /  EdnaF. Einsiedel
Part 1: Hindsight Learnings
1  GM Foods in Hindsight  /  WilliamHallman
2  Patentable Subject Matter: Who Owns What Knowledge? /  Chika B. Onwuekwe
3  Patents in the Public Sphere: Public Perceptions andBiotechnology 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 AnticipatedTechnology /  Emily Marden, Holly Longstaff, and EdLevy
Fields of Pharmas: Plant Molecular Farming
6  The Emerging Technology of Plant Molecular Farming/  Michele Veeman
7  Policy and Regulatory Challenges for Plant-MadePharmaceuticals in the United States /  Patrick A. Stewart
8  Forestalling Liabilities? Stakeholder Participation andRegulatory Development /  Stuart Smyth
In the Stem Cell Fields
9  When Human Dignity Is Not Enough: Embryonic Stem CellResearch and Human Cloning in Canada /  Tania Bubela andTimothy Caulfield
Drugs -- Up Close and Personal: EngagingPharmacogenomics
10  Banking on Trust: Issues of Informed Consent inPharmacogenetic Research /  Rose Geransar
11  Pharmacogenomic Promises: Reflections on Semantics, Genohype, and Global Justice /  Bryn Williams-Jones and VuralOzdemir
12  Envisioning Race and Medicine: BiDil and the InsufficientMatch between Social Groups and Genotypes /  Benjamin R. Bates
Is Small Really Beautiful? Does Size Matter? Nanotechnologies
13  Nanotechnology and Human Imagination /  SusannaHornig Priest
14  Nanotechnology: The Policy Challenges /  LorraineSheremeta
Part 3: Governance Challenges and EmergingTechnologies
15  Technology, Democracy, and Ethics: Democratic Deficit andthe Ethics of Public Engagement /  Michael Burgess and JamesTansey
16  Impact Assessments and Emerging Technologies: FromPrecaution to " Smart Regulation" ? /  JacopoTorriti
17  Technology Ownership and Governance: An Alternative View ofIPRs /  Peter W. B. Phillips
18  Conclusion: Reflections on Emerging Technologies/  Edna F. Einsiedel
Index