Genetic Engineering (Opposing Viewpoints) - Softcover

Greenhaven Press

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0737705116 ISBN 13: 9780737705119

Publisher: Greenhaven Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Essays present various perspectives of the controversy surrounding the social, moral, and ethical aspects of genetic engineering, discussing pros and cons on its unproven potential to eliminate disease and world hunger.

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Gr 9 Up-A collection of articles by specialists in many related occupations. Each essay begins with an introduction to the author and questions to consider while reading it and ends with a periodical bibliography. Each chapter presents a question, the first being "How Will Genetic Engineering Affect Society?" The next chapter explores the ethical implications. The third asks how genetic engineering affects food and agriculture and the final section discusses how it should be regulated. The essays are comprehensive and thought-provoking. DNA discoverer James D. Watson argues that restrictions should not be placed on genetic research. Brian Halweil, a staff researcher at the Worldwatch Institute, discusses how genetically engineered food will not help to end world hunger, while Nobel prize-winner Norman Borlaug disagrees. A useful update to Carol Wekesser's Genetic Engineering (Greenhaven, 1996; o.p.).-Maren Ostergard, Bellevue Regional Library, WA

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Edition details

• Publisher: Greenhaven Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0737705116
• ISBN 13: 9780737705119
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 218
• Editor: James D. Torr