The limits to governance the challenge of policy-making for the new life sciences (Ashgate, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; Figure; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 The Challenge of Policy-making for the New Life Sciences; PART 1 Principles; PART 2 Processes; PART 3 People; Index
How can policy-makers ensure that we benefit from the health developments brought by genomics while satisfying both the expectations of society and the economic imperatives?This book offers a critique of the new governance agenda for science and innovation in the context of the life sciences, and particularly genomics. The authors argue that the governance of genomics presents policy-makers worldwide with a variety of new problems; their valuable research here offers the solutions