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New Biotechnology: Potential Problems Likely Promises1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Raymond A. Zilinskas
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Janus-like, biotechnology, like other high technologies, presents two sides to society. On the one hand, a benign, even benevolent countenance holds forth the promise of virtually unlimited possibilities for doing good. Yet, if proper care is not taken, this same technology can present a specter of chthonic forces, difficult to contain.

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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , August 1983 , pp. 42 - 52
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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2. The Biological Applications Section of the Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress, formulated a working definition of biotechnology during the fall of 1982.Google Scholar

3. The major international instrument against chemical warfare is the 1925 Geneva Protocol. SeeLeague of Nations (1929), Treaties in International Agreement series, 8061.Google Scholar

4. Suspicions aroused as a result of a 1979 epidemic of anthrax in Sverdlovsk, USSR, emphasize this point.Google Scholar

5. The three areas of interest were discussed at COGENE's annual meeting held in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, March 12, 1982, which the author attended.Google Scholar

6. Experts included C. G. Héden (leader of the group), Boyer, H. W., Bukhari, A., Chakrabarty, A., Narang, S., Riazuddin, S., and Wu, R.Google Scholar

7. While performing his duties on the Selected Committee, the Argentine member, Cesar Vasquez, died in Lahore, Pakistan, April 19, 1983.Google Scholar

8. Readers can subscribe free to this publication by writing toGouri, G. S., Division for Industrial Studies, UNIDO, P.O. Box 300, Vienna International Center, A-1400, Vienna, Austria.Google Scholar