Bioprospecting: The ‘Promise’ and Threat of the Market
Bioprospecting is a relatively new name for a well-established practice. The term was coined by sustainable development advocates in the ...
Drug Companies’ Walking Test-Tubes
Just as automakers and apparel manufacturers have fled the stringent labor and environmental laws of developed countries to set up ...
Biopiracy and the Global Quest for Human Organs
Stephen Frears’ film Dirty Pretty Things treats the traffic in human frailty and vulnerability in the shadowy underworld of immigrant ...
Biometrics and Access Control in the Digital Age
The July 2000 elections in Mexico were historic for more reasons than the defeat of decades-long one-party rule. In a ...
