Engineering trouble
Subtitle: biotechnology and its discontents
By: edited by Rachel A. Schurman and Dennis Doyle Takahashi Kelso
Contributors: Schurman, Rachel; Kelso, Dennis D
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Genetic engineering -- Social aspects; Agricultural biotechnology -- Social aspects; Food -- Biotechnology -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-295) and index
Table of contents: title: Biotechnology in the new millennium: technological change, institutional change, and political struggle / Rachel A. Schurman; title: Wonderful potencies? Deep structure and the problem of monopoly in agricultural biotechnology / William Boyd; title: Building a better tree: genetic engineering and fiber farming in Oregon and Washington / W. Scott Prudham; title: The migration of salmon from nature to biotechnology / Dennis Takahashi Kelso; title: Making biotech history: social resistance to agricultural biotechnology and the future of the biotechnology industry / Rachel A. Schurman and William Munro; title: Eating risk: the politics of labeling genetically engineered foods / Julie Guthman; title: The World Trade Organization and the new politics of GEOs: Will GEOs be the Achilles heel of the globalization regime? / Frederick H. Buttel; title: Biotech battles: plants, power, and intellectual property in the new global governance regimes / Kathleen McAfee; title: From molecules to medicines: the use of genetic resources in pharmaceutical research / Astrid J. Scholz; title: The brave new worlds of agricultural technoscience: changing perspectives, recurrent themes, and new research directions in agro-food studies / David Goodman; title: Recreating democracy / Dennis Takahashi Kelso