Overview
"Absolutely everyone must eat. People decide several times a day what to eat and what not to eat, and the personal issue about genetically modified food is whether it is safe to eat - not only in the moment but the long run. ""Designer Food"" addresses these and other pressing questions surrounding the ethics of genetically modified food. Beginning with a chronicling of genetically modified food's rise to fame first in England and later in North America, the book considers such issues as the symbolic importance of food, world hunger, food terrorism and sabotage, and democratic public participation in the growing debate surrounding genetically modified food."
Full Product Details
Author: Gregory E. Pence
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.30cm
Weight: 0.463kg
ISBN: 9780742508392
ISBN 10: 0742508390
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 18 December 2001
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
,
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.
Reviews
Professor Pence has done a masterful job in telling the story of the controversy over genetically modified food, poignantly painting the views of diverse actors and analyzing the underlying philosophies of their arguments. And yet, Designer Food is more than a treatise on the debate it furthers an argument on the future of food on this planet, and how we are to go about ensuring its access to everyone. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to better understand the current debate on genetically modified food.--C. S. Prakash
Professor Pence has done a masterful job in telling the story of the controversy over genetically modified food, poignantly painting the views of diverse actors and analyzing the underlying philosophies of their arguments. And yet, Designer Food is more than a treatise on the debate--it furthers an argument on the future of food on this planet, and how we are to go about ensuring its access to everyone. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to better understand the current debate on genetically modified food.--C. S. Prakash
Author Information
Gregory Pence is a medical ethicist with twenty years of experience reviewing significant cases in bioethics, and is professor in the School of Medicine and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alabama. Pence has contributed to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. He is the author of Classical Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped Medical Ethics, 3rd edition (2000) and Who's Afraid of Human Cloning? (1998).
