WEEK 9 -- Mar. 24

Group Activity: Developing Verification and Monitoring standards for group case (90 min.)

Class Discussion: Evaluation of Safety Elements Process (20 min.)
Feedback on each group's draft Unit 1 Synthesis Paper (60 min.)

Readings due Week 10:
All: Remainder of Kapuscinski, A.R. "Controversies in designing useful ecological assessments of organisms". In Genetically Engineered Organisms, pp. 401-410 (briefly reviews central core of Understanding Risk, the next reading).

Understanding Risk, Summary; Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

Sagar et al. 2000. The tragedy of the commoners: biotechnology and its publics. Nature Biotechnology 18 (Jan): 2-4.

Optional: (a gem) Gibbons 1999. Science's new social contract with society. Nature 402, Supp. 2 9 (Dec.): C81-C84.

Kapuscinski, Jacobs, and Pullins. 2001. Making Safety First a Reality: Final Report of the March 2-3, 2001 Workshop on Active Governance of Genetic Engineering for Human Health and Environment Worldwide, ISEES. Pp.4-12, skim pp. 13-19, 25-27. http://www.fw.umn.edu/isees

Due Week 10: Group synthesis paper 1