Intervention: Confronting the Real Risks of Genetic Engineering and Life on a Biotech Planet - Softcover

Denise Caruso

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615135536 ISBN 13: 9780615135533

Publisher: The Hybrid Vigor Institute, 2006

Synopsis

Recipient of a Silver Medal for science writing in the 2007 Independent Publishers Book Awards, INTERVENTION challenges two of the most sacred tenets of modern society, innovation and technology, from the perspective of the unique risks they present. Using genetic engineering as its model, it paints a vivid picture of the scientific uncertainties that biotech risk evaluations dismiss or ignore, and lays bare the power and money conflicts between academia, industry and regulators that have sped these risky innovations to the market. 'Intervention' champions an alternative method for assessing the risks of technology, developed by the world's top risk experts, that can eliminate such conflicts, help regain public trust in science and government, and drive research and development toward more useful, safer products.

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About the Author

Denise Caruso is the co-founder and executive director of The Hybrid Vigor Institute, a not-for-profit research and consulting practice focused on collaborative research and problem-solving. She writes the Re:framing column in the Sunday Business section of The New York Times. Also a veteran technology journalist and analyst, she began covering the personal computer era in the early 1980s for a variety of trade and national publications. For the five years prior to founding Hybrid Vigor in 2000, Caruso wrote the Digital Commerce column for the Times.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Hybrid Vigor Institute
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615135536
• ISBN 13: 9780615135533
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270