Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2plfb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-02T19:47:15.578Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Commentary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

Egbert Schroten
Egbert Schroten
Affiliation:
University Centre for Bioethics and Health Law, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, the National Committee on Animal Biotechnology, and the Group of Advisers on the Ethical Implications of Biotechnology of the European Commission
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

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.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: CLONING: TECHNOLOGY, POLICY, AND ETHICS
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , April 1998 , pp. 196 - 198
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)