The author of this work on biotechnology applied to animals  has been involving in bioethics for many years. He treats subjects such as bio-informatic zootechny, eugenics and hybridization, transgenic animals, clones' army: inquieting names for a science ever more mysterious.

This book belongs to the collection on “Natural medicine”. It is adressed not only to doctors and pharmacists, since its language gets treated subjects closer  to the common sensitivity. 
Aldo Ercoli, cardiologist and specialist in omeopathy and phytotherapy, has already published texts on generel medicine. 
 

This is the first Italian edition of  a British hand book dealing with biological origin of pathologies and clinical manifestation. Many specialists of different fields of medicine collaborated to carry out this work. Each chapter is dedicated  to a particular sector of clinical science: epidemiology, immunology, gastroenterology, oncology... 

Utet has been publishing a treatise in 20 volumes on pharmachology. The whole work has been edited by Italian researchers, with the main purpose of exploiting our cultural resources and makes closer the relation between authors and readers. The 9th volume deals with toxicology food.