TY - GEN N2 - Offers a lucid analysis of the real implications of biotechnology legislation in the US and the EU, and contrasts it with approaches to agricultural and medical biotech in the rest of the world. Argues that the EU and America are removing decision-making power from the people and their elected representatives. Biotechnology regulation is a local manifestation of a global process of transferring power: from the people to corporations, from poor countries to rich ones, from the public to the private. [Publisher web site]. AB - Offers a lucid analysis of the real implications of biotechnology legislation in the US and the EU, and contrasts it with approaches to agricultural and medical biotech in the rest of the world. Argues that the EU and America are removing decision-making power from the people and their elected representatives. Biotechnology regulation is a local manifestation of a global process of transferring power: from the people to corporations, from poor countries to rich ones, from the public to the private. [Publisher web site]. T1 - Biotechnology :corporate power versus the public interest / AU - Mcgiffen, Steven Paul, AU - McGiffen, Steven Paul. CN - TP248.2 LA - eng ID - 26615 KW - Biotechnology KW - Patents KW - Copyright KW - Designs SN - 9780745319742 TI - Biotechnology :corporate power versus the public interest / ER -