Genetic Control in Historical Perspective: The Legacy of India's Genetic Control of Mosquitoes Unit

In the early 1970s, a World Health Organization-initiated and United States-funded project released lab-reared mosquitoes outside New Delhi in the first large-scale field trials of the genetic control of mosquitoes. Despite partnering with the Indian Council of Medical Research and investing signifi...

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Main Author: Wilbanks, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley 2021
In: The Hastings Center report
Year: 2021, Volume: 51, Pages: 11-18
Further subjects:B securitization of public health
B militarization of public health
B Bioethics
B genetic control
B democratic deliberation
B gene editing
B public deliberation
B vector-borne disease
B international development
B Cold War science
B postcolonial science
B genetic modification
B transnational / international research ethics
B science and colonialism
B history of public health
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