Commentary
At an international workshop on Transgenic Animals and Food Production in Stockholm in May 1997 Peter Sandoe, a Danish philosopher, characterized the difference between Europe and the United States in attitudes toward biotechnology as a difference between “why?” and “why not?” To do so, of course, s...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1998
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 1998, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 196-198 |
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Summary: | At an international workshop on Transgenic Animals and Food Production in Stockholm in May 1997 Peter Sandoe, a Danish philosopher, characterized the difference between Europe and the United States in attitudes toward biotechnology as a difference between “why?” and “why not?” To do so, of course, sins against the eleventh commandment, “Thou shalt not generalize,” but the distinction he draws is a concise way to highlight the differences in policymaking in matters of biotechnology. |
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ISSN: | 1469-2147 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0963180198222134 |