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  title info:
    title: Food, Genetic Engineering and Philosophy of Technology
    sub title: Magic Bullets, Technological Fixes and Responsibility to the Future
  name:
    name part: Scott, N. Dane.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 158 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book describes specific, well-known controversies in the genetic modification debate and connects them to deeper philosophical issues in philosophy of technology. It contributes to the current, far-reaching deliberations about the future of food, agriculture and society. Controversies over so-called Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) regularly appear in the press. The biotechnology debate has settled into a long-term philosophical dispute. The discussion goes much deeper than the initial empirical questions about whether or not GM food and crops are safe for human consumption or pose environmental harms that dominated news reports. In fact, the implications of this debate extend beyond the sphere of food and agriculture to encompass the general role of science and technology in society. The GM controversy provides an occasion to explore important issues in philosophy of technology. Researchers, teachers and students interested in agricultural biotechnology, philosophy of technology and the future of food and agriculture will find this exploration timely and thought provoking.
  table of contents: Genetically Engineering and Philosophy of Technology: Technological Fixes, Magic Bullets and the Faustian Bargain -- Chapter 1: "Four Keys Concepts for Understanding the Biotechnology Dilemma: Magic Bullets, Technological Fixes, Faustian Bargains and Big Science" -- Chapter 2: "At the Crossroads of Philosophy Technological: Optimism, Pessimism or Pragmatism" -- Chapter 3: "Magic Bullets and Productionist Paradigm: Biotechnology or Agroecology" -- Chapter 4: "Technological Fixes: Golden Rice and Social Change" -- Chapter 5: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice meets Chicken Little: Risk versus Precaution" -- Chapter 6: "Scientists, Can we trust them? Biotechnology, Big Science and Vested Interests" -- Chapter 7: "Science, Agriculture and the Good Life: Biotechnology at the Crossroads to the Future" -- Chapter 8: "The Faustian Bargain: Realism and Idealism in the GM debate.
  note: by N. Dane Scott.
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Genetic engineering
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Genetic Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  classification: BJ1-1725
  classification: S1-972
  classification: 630.01
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, 28
  identifier: 9783319960272
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96027-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 181022
    record change date: 20191027051405.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-96027-2