Tina Stevens, Stuart Newman

Biotech Juggernaut

Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tracing the rise and cultural politics of biotechnology from a critical perspective, Biotech Juggernaut examines the intensifying effort of bioentrepreneurs to apply genetic engineering technologies to the human species. It explains how converging vectors of economic, politic, social, and cultural elements are driving biotechnologyâ s swift advance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9781138043237
• ISBN-10: 1138043230
• Artikelnr.: 54588555

Autorenporträt

Tina Stevens, Ph.D., is Lecturer Emerita at San Francisco State University, Department of History. She is a co-founder of Alliance for Humane Biotechnology, and the author of Bioethics in America: Origins and Cultural Politics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). Stuart Newman, Ph.D., is Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at New York Medical College where he studies developmental and evolutionary biology. He was a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics and is co-author of Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo (Cambridge, 2005). He is editor of the journal Biological Theory (Springer).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations and Terms. Prologue: A Shared Encounter. 1.
Introduction: The Biotech Juggernaut. 2. The Dawn of GM Humans. 3.
California Cloning - The Campaign. 4. California Cloning - The Aftermath.
5. Synthetic Biology: Extreme Genetic Engineering. 6. The Road to Gattaca.
Concluding Reflections. Appendices. Index.