Emerging Technologies

Edna F. Einsiedel is a professor of Communication Studies at the University of Calgary.Contributors: Benjamin R. Bates, Tania Bubela, Michael Burgess, Timothy Caulfield, Edna F. Einsiedel, Rose Geransar, William Hallman, Susanna Hornig Priest, Holly Longstaff, Ed Levy, Emily Marden, Chika B. Onwuekwe, Vural Ozdemir, Peter W.B. Phillips, Lorraine Sheremeta, Patrick A. Stewart, Stuart Smyth, James Tansey, Paul B. Thompson, Jacopo Torriti, Michele Veeman, and Bryn Williams-Jones

• Introduction: Making Sense of Emerging Technologies / Edna F. EinsiedelPart 1: Hindsight Learnings1 GM Foods in Hindsight / William Hallman2 Patentable Subject Matter: Who Owns What Knowledge? / Chika B. Onwuekwe3 Patents in the Public Sphere: Public Perceptions and Biotechnology Patents / Edna F. EinsiedelPart 2: Foresight Applications(Transgenic) Animal Farm4 Of Biotechnology and Blind Chickens / Paul B. Thompson5 Transgenic Salmon: Regulatory Oversight of an Anticipated Technology / Emily Marden, Holly Longstaff, and Ed LevyFields of Pharmas: Plant Molecular Farming6 The Emerging Technology of Plant Molecular Farming / Michele Veeman7 Policy and Regulatory Challenges for Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals in the United States / Patrick A. Stewart8 Forestalling Liabilities? Stakeholder Participation and Regulatory Development / Stuart SmythIn the Stem Cell Fields9 When Human Dignity Is Not Enough: Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning in Canada / Tania Bubela and Timothy CaulfieldDrugs – Up Close and Personal: Engaging Pharmacogenomics10 Banking on Trust: Issues of Informed Consent in Pharmacogenetic Research / Rose Geransar11 Pharmacogenomic Promises: Reflections on Semantics, Genohype, and Global Justice / Bryn Williams-Jones and Vural Ozdemir12 Envisioning Race and Medicine: BiDil and the Insufficient Match between Social Groups and Genotypes / Benjamin R. BatesIs Small Really Beautiful? Does Size Matter? Nanotechnologies13 Nanotechnology and Human Imagination / Susanna Hornig Priest14 Nanotechnology: The Policy Challenges / Lorraine SheremetaPart 3: Governance Challenges and Emerging Technologies15 Technology, Democracy, and Ethics: Democratic Deficit and the Ethics of Public Engagement / Michael Burgess and James Tansey16 Impact Assessments and Emerging Technologies: From Precaution to "Smart Regulation"? / Jacopo Torriti17 Technology Ownership and Governance: An Alternative View of IPRs / Peter W.B. Phillips18 Conclusion: Reflections on Emerging Technologies / Edna F. EinsiedelIndex

"An important contribution for scholars interested in the philosophy of science, science studies, and policy/decision-making processes around new technologies. - Toby A. Ten Eyck, Department of Sociology, Michigan State University"