The Regulation of Science and Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Context for Science and Technology Regulation

      • Helen Lawton Smith

      Pages 3-30

3. The Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. The Political Economy of Public Science: a Contribution to the Regulation of Science and Technology

      • Paul A. David

      Pages 33-57

   3. Can Basic Science Be Valued?

      • John Mulvey

      Pages 58-67

   4. What Higher Educational System Will There Be To Regulate?

      • Douglas Hague

      Pages 68-84

   5. Can Managed Public Science Enhance Wealth and Quality of Life? A Process Industries’ View

      • Richard C. Darton

      Pages 85-93

4. The International Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. The Evolution of European Science and Technology Policy and its Links to the Cohesion Agenda

      • David R. Charles

      Pages 97-126

   3. The Creation of Harmonised Patent Protection in Europe

      • Gerald Paterson

      Pages 127-135

   4. How Has Tax Affected the Changing Cost of R&D? Evidence from Eight Countries

      • Nicholas Bloom, Lucy Chennells, Rachel Griffith, John Van Reenen

      Pages 136-160

   5. Reconstructing the Local and the Global: Europeanisation, Regulation and Changing Knowledge Relations

      • Henry Rothstein, Alan Irwin

      Pages 161-175

5. Regulation in Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. The Globalisation of Environmental and Consumer Protection Regulation: Resources and Accountability

      • Erik Millstone

      Pages 179-200

   3. Science and Technology in the Defence Industries: the Growing Influence of Transnational Industrial-Governmental Networks

      • John Lovering

      Pages 201-220

   4. The Political Economy of Medicines Regulation in Britain

      • John Abraham

      Pages 221-263

6. Back Matter

   Pages 264-274

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The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Many millions elsewhere in South-East Asia and South America may soon suffer a similar fate. Venomous Earth is the story of this tragedy: the geology, the biology, the politics and the history. It starts in Ancient Greece, touches down in today's North America and takes in William Morris, alchemy, farming, medicine, mining and a cosmetic that killed two popes.

• Asia
• East Asia
• regulation
• research
• science and technology

• Centre for Local Economic Development, Coventry Business School, Coventry University, UK

  Helen Lawton Smith

• Oxfordshire Economic Observatory, School of Geography and the Environment Oxford University, UK

  Helen Lawton Smith

Andrew Meharg is Professor of Biogeochemistry at the University of Aberdeen where he studies and teaches on the impact of pollutants on the environment. His particular interest is how arsenic interacts with plants, animals and humans. In this capacity he has advised national and international government and aid bodies. Andrew has published numerous academic papers, book chapters and popular press articles on his research.

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