{"product_id":"biotech-juggernaut-by-tina-stevens-9781138043190","title":"Biotech Juggernaut","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBiotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience\u003c\/i\u003e relates the intensifying effort of bioentrepreneurs to apply genetic engineering technologies to the human species and to extend the commercial reach of synthetic biology or \"extreme genetic engineering.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1980, legal developments concerning patenting laws transformed scientific researchers into bioentrepreneurs. Often motivated to create profit-driven biotech start-up companies or to serve on their advisory boards, university researchers now commonly operate under serious conflicts of interest. These conflicts stand in the way of giving full consideration to the social and ethical consequences of the technologies they seek to develop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToo often, bioentrepreneurs have worked to obscure how these technologies could alter human evolution and to hide the social costs of keeping on this path. Tracing the rise and cultural politics of biotechnology from a critical perspective, \u003ci\u003eBiotech Juggernaut\u003c\/i\u003e aims to correct the informational imbalance between producers of biotechnologies on the one hand, and the intended consumers of these technologies and general society, on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt explains how the converging vectors of economic, political, social, and cultural elements driving biotechnology’s swift advance constitutes a juggernaut. It concludes with a reflection on whether it is possible for an informed public to halt what appears to be a runaway force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47605158150380,"sku":"9781138043190","price":341.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781138043190-biotech-juggernaut.jpg?v=1778124809","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/biotech-juggernaut-by-tina-stevens-9781138043190","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}