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The Limits to Governance

The Limits to Governance

Theo Papaioannou

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2016
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Antropología
ISBN:
9781138276864
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How can policy-makers ensure that we benefit from the health developments brought by genomics while satisfying both the expectations of society and the economic imperatives? This book offers a critique of the new governance agenda for science and innovation in the context of the life sciences, and particularly genomics. The authors argue that the governance of genomics presents policy-makers worldwide with a variety of new problems - their valuable research here offers the solutions.

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