Articles Related to Genetic Engineering
Articles Related to Genetic EngineeringAufsätze über Gentechnologie, Naturwissenschaft und Bioethik Articles au sujet du génie génétique et la science qui le soutient
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Articles are classified as follows:
General
The Science Behind
The Technology: Contrasting Approaches
Plants, crops & food
Animals
Human beings (gene therapy and
screening)
Glossary of terms and key to abbreviations.
"What Is the Reality of a Gene?" by Johannes Wirz
"Hidden Inheritance" by Gail Vines
"Manipulating consciousness with advertising strategies" by Ingeborg Woitsch
"The Value of Biotechnology As an Incentive for Moral Evolution" by John Armstrong
"An Interview with Professor Brian Goodwin" by David King
"Do the Genes Justify the Means?" by Pat Cheney
The Science Behind The Technology: Contrasting Approaches
"Progress towards complementarity in genetics" by Johannes Wirz
"Genes Are Not Immune to Context: Examples from Bacteria" by Craig Holdrege
"Reductionism and Organicism in Science" by Henk Verhoog
"Ecology Versus Genetics--Two Opposite Tendencies within the Sciences of Life" by Trond Skaftnesmo
"Environment as Data versus "Being": Is Goetheanism possible in the West?" by William Brinton
'Beyond Substantial Equivalence: Ethical Equivalence' by Sylvie Pouteau
"Golden Genes and World Hunger: Let them eat transgenic rice?" by Craig Holdrege and Steve Talbott
"Ecological cereal breeding and genetic engineering" by Christine Karutz
'Plant Biotechnology: Facts and Public
Perception' by Donald Boulter
'A scientist’s appraisal of the public perception of GM food
crops in the UK' by Donald Boulter
'Transgenic plant technology; threat or promise?' by Jonathan Jones
'The Nuffield Panel's Blunders' by George Monbiot
"Beans Means Genes - Transgenic crops and food: a threat to cultural freedom?" by David Heaf
GeneWatch Briefing No. 3: "Genetic Engineering: Can it feed the world?"
"Cashing in on Life - Operation Terminator" by Jean-Pierre Berlan and Richard C. Lewontin
"Sustainable Organic Plant Breeding" by Edith Lammerts van Bueren et al.
"Organic farming and genetic pollution from genetically modified crops" by David J. Heaf
"Biotechnology and the basic values of organic agriculture" by Edith Lammerts van Bueren
(see also the many articles in our printed books Intrinsic Value and Integrity of Plants in the Context of Genetic
Engineering published in 2001
and Genetic Engineering and the Intrinsic Value and Integrity of
Animals and Plants published in 2002)
"Genetic modification of animals: Should science and ethics be integrated?" by Henk Verhoog
"Animal Integrity: aesthetic or moral value?" by Henk Verhoog
Human beings (cloning, gene therapy and genetic screening)
'Defending freedom – Defending the body. A philosophical commentary on the invasion of the human being' by Jens Heisterkamp'Life Beyond Genes: Reflections on the Human Genome Project' by Craig Holdrege and Johannes Wirz (hosted at www.natureinstitute.org)
'Genetic Encores: The Ethics of Human Cloning' by Robert Wachbroit
"Genetics and Medicine" by Peter Grünewald
"Show me your genes and I will tell you who you are" -- A look at the Human Genome Project by David Heaf"The Politics of Genetically Engineered Humans" by Richard Hayes
The views of the authors of the above articles do not necessarily reflect the aims of Ifgene or the views of Ifgene working group members.