Genetically modified survival: Red and green biotechnology in Israel

Science as Culture

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 355-372

  Prainsack, Barbara ^a   Firestine, Ofer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT DNA;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLONING; CONSUMER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMBRYO RESEARCH; ETHICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; GOVERNMENT; INDUSTRY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; ISRAEL; LEGAL ASPECT; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERSONNEL; POLICY; POLITICS; RELIGION; SCIENCE; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STEM CELL; SURVIVAL; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ATTITUDE; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLONING, ORGANISM; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DNA, RECOMBINANT; EMBRYO RESEARCH; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GOVERNMENT; INDUSTRY; ISRAEL; JUDAISM; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLICY MAKING; POLITICS; PUBLIC POLICY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESEARCH SUPPORT; SCIENCE; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; SOCIAL VALUES; STEM CELLS; SURVIVAL; WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 33744512191     PISSN: 09505431     EISSN: 14701189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09505430500369111     Document Type: Article

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