Biotechnology : assessing social impacts and policy implications / edited by David J. Webber ; prepared under the auspices of the Policy Studies Organization.

New York : Greenwood Press, 1990.

xiv, 239 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-230) and index

Biotechnology, risk, and political values : philosophical rhetoric and the structure of political debate / Paul B. Thompson -- Organized religion and biotechnology : social responsibility and the role of government / Thomas C. Wiegele -- Political choices, social values, and the economics of biotechnology : a lesson from the dairy industry / William P. Browne and Larry G. Hamm -- American universities, technology innovation, and technology transfer : implications for biotechnology research / Charles Johnson and Robin Moore -- Biotechnology and agricultural cooperatives : opportunities, challenges, and strategies for the future / William B. Lacy, Lawrence Busch, and William D. Cole -- Plant biotechnolgy networking in developing countries / Robert K. Dixon

(Contin.) Who will benefit from agricultural biotechnology : an analysis of economic and legal influences / Beverly Fleisher -- Regulating geneticallyengineered organisms : the case of the dairy industry / Richard Sherlock and Amal Kawar -- Regulatory experience with food safety : social choice implication for recombinant DNA-derived animal growth hormones / Fred Kuchler, John McClelland, and Susam E. Offutt -- Biotechnology : issue development and evolution / L. Christopher Plein -- Policymakers address biotechnology : issues and responsibilities / Morris Bosin -- Economic development and public policy : what is the role for biotechnology? / Mack C. Shelley, II ... [et al.] -- Biotechnology policy knowledge : a challenge to congressional policymakers and policy analysts / David F. Webber.