Science, Seeds and Cyborgs
Subtitle: Biotechnology and the Appropriation of Life
Publisher: Verso
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781859846872
Subjects: Genetic engineering; Medical ethics; The Environment; Social aspects; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Science; Science/Mathematics; Biotechnology; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics
First sentence: This book presents a critical analysis of the ecological, social and ethical implications of the revolution in biotechnology.
Description: "Science, Seeds and Cyborgs is a detailed examination and critique of the DNA-centric paradigm in molecular biology, and of the biotech industry it has spawned. It argues that the genetic manipulation of organisms is proceeding along a perilous path, where even the successes of the new genetic technologies produce corrosive cultural effects, making it progressively easier to think of organisms - including the human one - as disposable artefacts.

Exploring the wide reach of modern biotechnology, from the genetic modification of plants and animals to medical genetics, assisted reproduction and human cloning, it suggests that we are losing sight of the human being in favour of adapting that being to an inhuman world."--BOOK JACKET.