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Title Engineering trouble [electronic resource] : biotechnology and its discontents / edited by Rachel A. Schurman and Dennis Doyle Takahashi Kelso.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.

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Description xii, 313 p. : ill.
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Genetic engineering -- Social aspects.
Agricultural biotechnology -- Social aspects.
Food -- Biotechnology -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Schurman, Rachel.
Kelso, Dennis D.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0520237617 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0520240073 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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