The limits to governance: the challenge of policy-making for the new life sciences
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham Ashgate ©2009
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Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description: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
Physical Description:xvi, 284 pages
ISBN:9780754698425
0754698424
0754675084
9780754675082

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