Deliberative Democracy and Biotechnological Development

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Abstract

Considering the current times and the directions taken by contemporary scientific and technical research, there is no longer any debate as to whether we live in the biotechnology era. What authors such as J. Rifkin (1999), T. Wilkie (1993), or T.F. Lee (1994) anticipated years ago—that we inhabit the era of biotechnology and the biotech economy—is now a belief reinforced by ongoing research trends, by the most valued stock market indices (NASDAQ), by sensationalist media reports, and by the expectations of a civil society that sees medical biotechnology applications as the ultimate therapeutic panacea.

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Asunción Herrera Guevara, University of Oviedo

Departamento de Filosofía.

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2005-12-01

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Herrera Guevara, A. (2005). Deliberative Democracy and Biotechnological Development. Revista Iberoamericana De Ciencia, Tecnología Y Sociedad - CTS (Ibero-American Science, Technology and Society Journal), 2(6), 211–221. https://doi.org/10.52712/issn.1850-0013-1003

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Vol. 2 No. 6 (2005)

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