Research Catalog

Title

Engineering trouble : biotechnology and its discontents / edited by Rachel A. Schurman and Dennis Doyle Takahashi Kelso.

Publication

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kelso, Dennis D.
• Schurman, Rachel.

Description

xii, 313 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Agricultural biotechnology > Social aspects
• Food > Social aspects
• Genetic engineering > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-295) and index.

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 Doyle Takahashi Kelso -- Making biotech history : social resistance to agricultural biotechnology and the future of the biotechnology industry / Rachel A. Schurman and William A. Munro -- Eating risk : the politics of labeling genetically engineered foods / Julie Guthman -- The global politics of GEOs : 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 Doyle Takahashi Kelso.

ISBN

• 0520237617 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0520240073 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002152991

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library