Biotechnology: The Swiss vote on gene technology

Science

Volumn 281, Issue 5384, 1998, Pages 1810-1811

  Schatz, Gottfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SWITZERLAND; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ART; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE PROTECTION INITIATIVE (SWITZERLAND); GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LEGAL ASPECT; POLITICS; PUBLIC OPINION; RESEARCH; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENE PROTECTION INITIATIVE (SWITZERLAND); GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ART; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLITICS; PUBLIC OPINION; RESEARCH; SWITZERLAND; WOMEN;

EID: 0032544282     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5384.1810     Document Type: Short Survey

References (6)

1. R. M. May, Science 275, 793 (1997).
2. Report on "Genschutz" Initiative [Gesellschaft für Sozialforschung (GfS) Research Institute, Berne, Switzerland, May 1998].
3. P. Laymann, Chem. Eng. News (13 July 1998), pp. 33-34.
4. C. Longchamp, VOX-Analysis of 7 June 1998 (GfS Research Institute, Berne, Switzerland, 1998).
5. C. Longchamp and P. Huth, Barometer of Concerns (GfS Research Institute, Berne, Switzerland, 1997). Respondents were asked to pick from a list the five problems they considered most important.
6. Artists are not considered to be significant economic opinion factors and are ignored in most polls. However, their hostile view of gene technology is generally acknowledged by Swiss public opinion researchers (C. Longchamp, personal communication; T. Cueni, personal communication) as well as by the many artists I talked to.