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Private science : biotechnology and the rise of the molecular sciences / edited by Arnold Thackray.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Chemical sciences in society seriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: xi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0812234286
  • 9780812234282
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.46
LOC classification:
  • TP248.18. P75 1998
Contents:
Introduction -- Molecular Biology and the Long-Term History of Biotechnology -- Problematizing Basic Research in Molecular Biology -- Biotechnology and Blood: Edwin Cohn's Plasma Fractionation Project, 1940-1953 -- Diamond v. Chakrabarty and Beyond: The Political Economy of Patenting Life -- Molecular Politics in a Global Economy -- The Political Economy of British Biotechnology -- Biotechnology and the Creation of a New Economic Space -- The Cultural and Symbolic Dimensions of Agricultural Biotechnology -- Monoclonal Antibodies: From Local to Extended Networks -- The Human Genome Project and the Acceleration of Biotechnology -- Data Access Policy in Genome Research -- Biotechnology's Private Parts (and Some Public Ones) -- Index -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Molecular Biology and the Long-Term History of Biotechnology -- Problematizing Basic Research in Molecular Biology -- Biotechnology and Blood: Edwin Cohn's Plasma Fractionation Project, 1940-1953 -- Diamond v. Chakrabarty and Beyond: The Political Economy of Patenting Life -- Molecular Politics in a Global Economy -- The Political Economy of British Biotechnology -- Biotechnology and the Creation of a New Economic Space -- The Cultural and Symbolic Dimensions of Agricultural Biotechnology -- Monoclonal Antibodies: From Local to Extended Networks -- The Human Genome Project and the Acceleration of Biotechnology -- Data Access Policy in Genome Research -- Biotechnology's Private Parts (and Some Public Ones) -- Index -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments.

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