The Limits to Governance: The Challenge of Policy-Making for the New Life Sciences. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.The Limits to Governance: The Challenge of Policy-Making for the New Life Sciences

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.

Dr Catherine Lyall is Deputy Director of the ESRC Innogen Centre at the University of Edinburgh. Dr Theo Papaioannou is Lecturer in Innovation and the Politics of Development at the Open University and a member of the ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics (INNOGEN). He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Brighton and a Sessional Lecturer at the University of London. Dr James Smith is a Co-Director and Senior Lecturer in the Centre of African Studies and Director of Developing Country Research in the ESRC Innogen Centre, University of Edinburgh. He is a Co-Director of the Edinburgh International Development Centre and a visiting research fellow in Development Policy and Practice at the Open University.