Title: Engineering trouble : biotechnology and its discontents /
Authors: Schurman, Rachel.; Kelso, Dennis D.
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Genetic engineering Social aspects.; Agricultural biotechnology Social aspects.; Food Biotechnology Social aspects; Biotechnology economics; Organisms, Genetically Modified; Industry economics; Politics; Public Opinion
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 Takahashi Kelso -- Making biotech history: social resistance to agricultural biotechnology and the future of the biotechnology industry / Rachel A. Schurman and William Munro -- Eating risk: the politics of labeling genetically engineered foods / Julie Guthman -- The World Trade Organization and the new politics of GEOs: Will GEOs be 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 Takahashi Kelso.