Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-295) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Talk of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) has moved from the hushed corridors of life science corporations to the front pages of major newspapers. This book examines these issues from the diverse perspectives of sociology, geography, law environmental studies and political science.
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Title
Engineering trouble.
International Standard Book Number
0520240073
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Agricultural biotechnology-- Social aspects.
Food-- Biotechnology-- Social aspects.
Genetic engineering-- Social aspects.
Biotechnology-- economics.
Industry-- economics.
Organisms, Genetically Modified.
Politics.
Public Opinion.
Aliments-- Biotechnologie-- Aspect social.
Biotechnologie agricole-- Aspect social.
Génie génétique-- Aspect social.
Agricultural biotechnology-- Social aspects.
Aufsatzsammlung
Biomedical Engineering.
Biotechnologie
Food-- Biotechnology-- Social aspects.
Genetic engineering-- Social aspects.
Health & Biological Sciences.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.