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Genetic Engineering Dream or Nightmare
A Scientist Challenges the Science
Since its first publication in 1998, Mae-Wan Ho's book ,
Genetic Engineering: Dream or Nightmare? has been widely acknowledged as
providing the most sustained and reasoned challenge to many of the
scientific assumptions underlying genetic engineering. It has now been
reissued in a second edition that has been up-dated and redesigned to make
it more accessible to the general reader
In her wide ranging and comprehensive book, Dr. Ho hits
out against transgenic foods, which have the potential to be toxic or
allergenic; monoculture - a major cause of malnutrition world-wide;
cloning - a scientifically flawed and morally unjustified process; the
large-scale release of transgenic organisms, which she describes as "much
worse than nuclear weapons as a means of mass destruction - as genes can
replicate indefinitely, spread and recombine".
The social and political implications of the involvement
of genetic engineering science with big corporate business are also
examined, with the author calling for a halt to commercialisation and for
an independent public enquiry into the hazards involved.
The new edition describes how much progress has been
made in public awareness of the dangers in the use of genetically modified
food and crops. It will spur the campaign for controls and labelling and
do much to challenge governments' support of the multinational industry.
This edition will become even more established as the authority in
its field.
The Author
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho is a respected British scientist, reader
in Biology at the Open University and fellow of the US National Genetics
Foundation. She is widely in demand as a lecturer and broadcaster. She has
debated issues involved in genetic engineering at the United Nations, the
European Parliament and at conferences throughout the world organised by
bodies such as the World Bank. Since 1994 she has been scientific advisor
to the Third World Network on genetic engineering, biotechnology and bio
safety.
Publication date 19 November 1999 - Price £12.00
A new updated version is available from the ISIS bookstore
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