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Guiding Icarus : merging bioethics with corporate interests /

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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 Dhand...

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Main Author: Dhanda, Rahul K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : John Wiley & Sons, ©2002.
Subjects:
Biotechnology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Biotechnology industries.
Biotechnology > ethics.
Bioethical Issues.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxv, 270 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-260) and index.
ISBN:0471461326
9780471461326
0471224839
9780471224839