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Author Dhanda, Rahul K.

Title Guiding Icarus : merging bioethics with corporate interests / Rahul K. Dhanda ; foreword by Philip R. Reilly
Published New York : John Wiley & Sons, [2002]
©2002
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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 270 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Genetically modified foods -- DNA data banking -- Personalized medicine -- Stem Cells -- Conclusion
Summary While bioethicists may enjoy the most thorough appreciation of both the promise and perils of new biotechnologies, international corporations are in fact the entities generating these technologies and determining their application. An industry insider versed in the language of bioethics, Rahul Dhanda offers in Guiding Icarus: Merging Bioethics with Corporate Interests a Rosetta stone to these two camps, explaining why each needs the other, why their disparate concerns often cohere, and why an ethical business is likely a successful one
Analysis Biotechnology Business special topics Public law / biotech gene technology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-260) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Biotechnology -- ethics.
Bioethical Issues.
Biotechnology industries.
Biotechnology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0471224839 (electronic bk.)
0471461326 (electronic bk.)
9780471224839 (electronic bk.)
9780471461326 (electronic bk.)
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