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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450075603321

Autore

Schurman Rachel

Titolo

Engineering Trouble [[electronic resource] ] : Biotechnology and Its Discontents

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

1-4175-2550-9

0-520-93749-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KelsoDennis D

Disciplina

306.4/6

660.6

Soggetti

Agricultural biotechnology

Agricultural biotechnology - Social aspects

Food

Food - Biotechnology - Social aspects

Genetic engineering

Genetic engineering-- Social aspects

Biological Science Disciplines

Social Control, Informal

Organism Forms

Technology

Social Sciences

Technology, Industry, and Agriculture

Sociology

Natural Science Disciplines

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena

Organisms

Technology, Industry, Agriculture

Disciplines and Occupations

Politics

Public Opinion

Biotechnology

Organisms, Genetically Modified

Industry

Health & Biological Sciences

Biomedical Engineering

Electronic books.



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction: Biotechnology in the New Millennium; 1 Wonderful Potencies? Deep Structure and the Problem of Monopoly in Agricultural Biotechnology; 2 Building a Better Tree: Genetic Engineering and Fiber Farming in Oregon and Washington; 3 The Migration of Salmon from Nature to Biotechnology; 4 Making Biotech History: Social Resistance to Agricultural Biotechnology and the Future of the Biotechnology Industry; 5 Eating Risk: The Politics of Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods; 6 The Global Politics of GEOs: The Achilles' Heel of the Globalization Regime?

7 Biotech Battles: Plants, Power, and Intellectual Property in the New Global Governance Regimes8 From Molecules to Medicines: The Use of Genetic Resources in Pharmaceutical Research; CONCLUSION: Recreating Democracy; GLOSSARY; CONTRIBUTORS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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.