Food and agricultural biotechnology in ethical perspective

Food and agricultural biotechnology in ethical perspective / Paul B. Thompson.

This 3rd edition of Food and Agricultural Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective updates Thompson's analysis to reflect the next generation of biotechnology, including synthetic biology, gene editing and gene drives. The first two editions of this book, published as Food Biotechnology in Ethical...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, Paul B., 1951- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2020]
Edition:Third edition.
Series:International library of environmental, agricultural, and food ethics ; v. 32.
Subjects:
Food > Biotechnology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Ethics.
Agriculture.
ethics (philosophy)
farming (activity or system)
agriculture (discipline)
Food > Biotechnology > Moral and ethical aspects
Agriculture
Ethics
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Food and Agricultural Biotechology: An Overview
  • Chapter 2: The Presumptive Case for Agrifood Biotechnology
  • Chapter 3: Biotechnology, Policy and the Problem of Unintended Consequences: The Case of rBST
  • Chapter 4: Food Safety and the Ethics of Consent
  • Chapter 5: Animal Health and Welfare
  • Chapter 6: Ethics and Environmental Impact
  • Chapter 7: Social Consequences
  • Chapter 8: Intellectual Property in the Biotechnology Debate
  • Chapter 9: Religious and Metaphysical Objections to Agrifood Biotechnology
  • Chapter 10: Risk, Ethics and the Problem of Trust
  • Chapter 11: The Next Generation Biotechnologies: Synthetic Biology, Gene Editing and Gene Drives.

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