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Engineering trouble : biotechnology and its discontents / edited by Rachel A. Schurman and Dennis Doyle Takahashi Kelso.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genetic engineering--Social aspects.
- Genetic engineering.
- Agricultural biotechnology--Social aspects.
- Agricultural biotechnology.
- Food--Biotechnology--Social aspects.
- Food.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Talk of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) has moved from the hushed corridors of life science corporations to the front pages of the world's major newspapers. As Europeans began rejecting genetically engineered foods in the marketplace, the StarLink corn incident exploded in the United States and farmers set fire to genetically modified crops in India.
- Contents:
- Biotechnology in the new millennium: technological change, institutional change, and political struggle / Rachel A. Schurman
- Wonderful potencies? Deep structure and the problem of monopoly in agricultural biotechnology / William Boyd
- Building a better tree: genetic engineering and fiber farming in Oregon and Washington / W. Scott Prudham
- The migration of salmon from nature to biotechnology / Dennis Doyle Takahashi Kelso
- Making biotech history: social resistance to agricultural biotechnology and the future of the biotechnology industry / Rachel A. Schurman and William A. Munro
- Eating risk: the politics of labeling genetically engineered foods / Julie Guthman
- The global politics of GEOs: the Achilles' heel of the globalization regime? / Frederick H. Buttel
- Biotech battles: plants, power, and intellectual property in the new global governance regimes / Kathleen McAfee
- From molecules to medicines: the use of genetic resources in pharmaceutical research / Astrid J. Scholz
- The brave new worlds of agricultural technoscience: changing perspectives, recurrent themes, and new research directions in agro-food studies / David Goodman
- Recreating democracy / Dennis Doyle Takahashi Kelso.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-295) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4175-2550-9
- 0-520-93749-X
- OCLC:
- 475931795
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