Learn about the advances in longevity, genetics, nanotech, and robotics that can make a superior you possible very soon. Discussion includes questions such as What are the social and ethical implications of all this? What will your government say about all this? Will super villa…
Learn about the advances in longevity, genetics, nanotech, and robotics that can make a superior you possible very soon. Discussion includes questions such as What are the social and ethical implications of all this? What will your government say about all this? Will super villa…
This book contains 22 chapters focusing on the emerging legal, social and regulatory issues pertaining to biotechnology and intellectual property rights (IPRs) in agriculture, food, pharmaceutics, health care and industry. Expert opinions are also presented by premier academicia…
This book contains 22 chapters focusing on the emerging legal, social and regulatory issues pertaining to biotechnology and intellectual property rights (IPRs) in agriculture, food, pharmaceutics, health care and industry. Expert opinions are also presented by premier academicia…
This book contains 22 chapters focusing on the emerging legal, social and regulatory issues pertaining to biotechnology and intellectual property rights (IPRs) in agriculture, food, pharmaceutics, health care and industry. Expert opinions are also presented by premier academicia…
Despite sustained continental and national struggles for autonomy, sovereignty and independence in postcolonial Africa, the continent is increasingly embattled by the forces of globalisation which threaten African identity that is at the core of African struggles for continental…
Situating the debates in the contemporary discourses on decoloniality, global consumerism, global food apartheid and the challenges and prospects of the emergent sharing economies, this collection of essays critically examines the importation, use and implications of genetically…
Being fabulous as the climate changes -- Still life with genetically modified tomato -- Store and tell -- The mortal life of HeLa -- Oncoscripts -- Dispatch from the palliative present
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault project is an arctic archive designed to preserve the world's agricultural biodiversity. What do it and other novel forms of storage tell us about our relationship to the future in a time of resource depletion and extinction scenarios? In this inno…
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault project is an arctic archive designed to preserve the world's agricultural biodiversity. What do it and other novel forms of storage tell us about our relationship to the future in a time of resource depletion and extinction scenarios? In this inno…
By the middle of the 21st century we can expect that the rapid progress in biotechnology will utterly transform human life. Even the prospect of immortality beckons. Such scenarios excite many people and frighten or appall many others--already biotechnology opponents are organiz…
