Local Knowledge and the Social Dimensions of Risk. The Case of Animal Biopharming in New Zealand.

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Local Knowledge and the Social Dimensions of Risk. The Case of Animal Biopharming in New Zealand.

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This thesis analyses the social dimensions of the risk of animal biopharming (the genetic modification of animals to produce pharmaceuticals) in New Zealand, in the context of a wider discussion of the social nature of risk. In doing so, it offers a different conception of risk and risk assessment than is currently used within the government policy of New Zealand. Current policy has focused on technical evaluations of risk, in which the technology being analysed is not assessed within the soc...

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Research paper

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2006

Creator

Shamy, David Stephen

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/893

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local knowledge / risk assessment / biotechnology / biofarming

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