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A machine to make a future : biotech chronicles

Title: A machine to make a future : biotech chronicles / Paul Rabinow and Talia Dan-Cohen.
Author: Rabinow, Paul.
Publication: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Dan-Cohen, Talia, 1982-

Description

199 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"A Machine to Make a Future represents a remarkably original look at the present and possible future of biotechnology research in the wake of the mapping of the human genome. The central tenet of Celera Diagnostics - the California biotech company whose formative work during 2003 is the focus of the book - is that the emergent knowledge about the genome, with its profound implications for human health, can now be turned into a powerful diagnostic apparatus - one that will yield breakthrough diagnostic and therapeutic products (and potentially, profit)."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-193).

Contents

Overture : a machine to make a future -- Ch. 1. Ending and beginning -- Ch. 2. The state of things at Celera Diagnostics, explained to investors and to anthropologists -- Ch. 3. The machinery and its stewards -- Ch. 4. Ethical and social consultancy -- Ch. 5. Confidence and trust -- Ch. 6. Models orient, technologies perform, samples speak (or vice versa) -- Ch. 7. Summer 2003 -- App. A corporate history.

ISBN

0691120501 (cl. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004045778

OCLC

ocm54822204
SCSB-5115740

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Columbia University Libraries