by Sarah Sexton
presentation | published September 2005 | summary | full document | PDF
It is difficult to obtain enough human eggs from women for cloning research. This article explores the problems encountered; whether women should be paid for their eggs; the growing international trade in women's eggs; the concept of informed consent and choice; and the public money pouring into cloning research.
by Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite
briefing | published September 2004 | summary | full document | PDF
When TRIPS was signed in 1994, the United States, Europe and Japan dominated the world's software, pharmaceutical, chemical and entertainment industries. The rest of the world had little to gain by agreeing to these terms of trade for intellectual property. They did so because a failure of democratic processes nationally and internationally enabled a small group of men within the United States to capture the US trade-agenda-setting process, to draft intellectual property principles that became the blueprint for TRIPS and to crush resistance through US trade power.
by Sarah Sexton
article | published July/August 2002 | summary | full document
The great majority of the world's diseases are caused by environmental, not genetic, conditions. A frenzied search for genetic therapies could steal resources from billions in order to serve only a few.
by Sarah Sexton
article | published June 2002 | summary | full document
Economics, rather than improved health, is the underlying rationale for public and private support of human genetic research and technologies.
by Sarah Sexton
presentation | published 1-2 December 2001 | summary | full document
An analysis of the changing language used in discussions of human embryo cloning.
by Sarah Sexton
presentation | published 24-27 May 2001 | summary | full document
by Sarah Sexton
presentation | published 9-10 February 2001 | summary | full document
by Sarah Sexton
article | published December 2000 | summary | full document
by Viola Sampson and Larry Lohmann
briefing | published December 2000 | summary | full document | PDF
by Sarah Sexton
briefing | published October 1999 | summary | full document | PDF
Most discussions about human embryo cloning focus on ethics and potential health benefits. In the process, the many social, economic and environmental aspects of health and disease are increasingly hidden, while issues such as how the potential benefits of biotech would be obtained and distributed are sidelined. It has therefore become hard to raise key questions about the increased geneticisation of our lives and societies.
by Nicholas Hildyard
talk | published November 1998 | summary | full document
A summary of the ecological risks of genetic engineering in agriculture and suggestions for resisting its introduction.
by Sarah Sexton, Nicholas Hildyard and Larry Lohmann
briefing | published October 1998 | summary | full document
The biotechnology industry claims that genetic engineering in agriculture is necessary to feed a growing world population. Yet, far from preventing world starvation, genetic engineering threatens to exacerbate the social and ecological causes of hunger by forcing farmers to pay for their right to fertile seeds, threatening crop yields, undermining biodiversity and reducing the access of poorer people to food.
by The Corner House
article | published 1998 | summary | full document
There are at least 10 good reasons why the widespread adoption of genetic engineering in agriculture will lead to more hungry people, not fewer.
by Alan Simpson, MP, and Nicholas Hildyard and Sarah Sexton
briefing | published September 1997 | summary | full document
Living organisms can now be patented as “inventions” if they are the result of genetic engineering techniques or of the transfer of genes between totally unrelated species of plants, animals and micro-organisms. Yet patents can hinder research, legalise biopiracy and restrict both competition and people’s access to health treatment.
by Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald with Nicholas Hildyard
article | published September 1993 | summary | full document