Engineering trouble biotechnology and its discontents / [electronic resource] : edited by Rachel A. Schurman and Dennis Doyle Takahashi Kelso. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. - xii, 313 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-295) and index.

Biotechnology in the new millennium: technological change, institutional change, and political struggle / Wonderful potencies? Deep structure and the problem of monopoly in agricultural biotechnology / Building a better tree: genetic engineering and fiber farming in Oregon and Washington / The migration of salmon from nature to biotechnology / Making biotech history: social resistance to agricultural biotechnology and the future of the biotechnology industry / Eating risk: the politics of labeling genetically engineered foods / The global politics of GEOs: the Achilles' heel of the globalization regime? / Biotech battles: plants, power, and intellectual property in the new global governance regimes / From molecules to medicines: the use of genetic resources in pharmaceutical research / The brave new worlds of agricultural technoscience: changing perspectives, recurrent themes, and new research directions in agro-food studies / Recreating democracy / Rachel A. Schurman -- William Boyd -- W. Scott Prudham -- Dennis Doyle Takahashi Kelso -- Rachel A. Schurman and William A. Munro -- Julie Guthman -- Frederick H. Buttel -- Kathleen McAfee -- Astrid J. Scholz -- David Goodman -- Dennis Doyle Takahashi Kelso.


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Genetic engineering--Social aspects.
Agricultural biotechnology--Social aspects.
Food--Biotechnology--Social aspects.


Electronic books.

TP248.6 / .E54 2003eb

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