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Redesigning life? : the worldwide challenge to genetic engineering / edited by Brian Tokar.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed by Palgrave, 2001.Description: 440 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781856498357
  • 9781856498357
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Contents:
From golden rice to terminator technology: agricultural biotechnology will not feed the world or save the environment / Martha L. Crouch -- Genetically engineered "vitamin A rice": a blind approach to blindness prevention / Vandana Shiva -- Cloning profits: the revolution in agricultural biotechnology / Sonja A. Schmitz -- Genetically engineered foods: a minefield of safety hazards / Jennifer Ferrara, Michael K. Dorsey -- Safety first / Beth Burrows -- Ecological consequences of genetic engineering / Ricarda A. Steinbrecher -- Biotechnology to the rescue? ten reasons why biotechnology is incompatiable with sustainable agriculture / Jack Kloppenburg, Jr., Beth Burrows -- From native forest to Frankenforest / Orin Langelle -- The case against designer babies: the politics of genetic enhancement / Marcy Darnovsky -- Cancer is (not) a genetic disease / Barbara Katz Rothman -- If cloning is the answer, what was the question? genetics and the politics of human health / Sarah Sexton -- Eugenic tendencies in modern genetics / David King -- If pigs could fly, they would: the problems with xenotransplantation / Alix Fano -- Reproductive technology: welcome to the brave new world / Zoë C. Meleo-Erwin -- Is violence in your genes? the Violence Initiative Project: coming soon to an inner city near you / Mitchel Cohen -- Gene giants: understanding the "life industry" / Hope Sand -- Patients, ethics and spin / Beth Burrows -- Biotechnology and indigenous peoples / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz -- Shhams, shamans and the commercialization of biodiversity / Michael K. Dorsey -- Biporiacy: the theft of knowledge and resources / Vandana Shiva -- Exlusive rights, enclosure and patenting of life / Kimberly A. Wilson -- Paving the way for biotechnology: Federal regulations and industry PR / Jennifer Ferrara -- Biotechnology and the new world order / Mitchel Cohen -- Resisting the engineering of life / Brian Tokar -- Princes, aliens, superheroes and snowballs: the playful world of the UK genetic resistence / Jim Thomas -- Seed Satyagraha: a movement for farmer's rights and freedoms in a world of intellectual property rights, globalized agriculture and biotechnology / Vandana Shiva -- Europe: hostile lands from GMOs / Thomas G. Schweiger -- No patents on life: the incredible ten-year campaign aginst the European patent directive / Steve Emmott -- No to bovine growth hormone: ten years of resistence in Canada / Lucy Sharratt -- Cooperatives: a source of community strength / Robin Seydel -- McDonald's, MTV and Monsanto: resisting biotechnolgy in the age of informational capital / Chaia Heller.
Summary: Offering an examination of the hidden hazards of the new genetic technologies and the emergence of worldwide resistance, this text analyses the issues, their social and ethical implications and the stories that lie behind the headlines.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

From golden rice to terminator technology: agricultural biotechnology will not feed the world or save the environment / Martha L. Crouch -- Genetically engineered "vitamin A rice": a blind approach to blindness prevention / Vandana Shiva -- Cloning profits: the revolution in agricultural biotechnology / Sonja A. Schmitz -- Genetically engineered foods: a minefield of safety hazards / Jennifer Ferrara, Michael K. Dorsey -- Safety first / Beth Burrows -- Ecological consequences of genetic engineering / Ricarda A. Steinbrecher -- Biotechnology to the rescue? ten reasons why biotechnology is incompatiable with sustainable agriculture / Jack Kloppenburg, Jr., Beth Burrows -- From native forest to Frankenforest / Orin Langelle -- The case against designer babies: the politics of genetic enhancement / Marcy Darnovsky -- Cancer is (not) a genetic disease / Barbara Katz Rothman -- If cloning is the answer, what was the question? genetics and the politics of human health / Sarah Sexton -- Eugenic tendencies in modern genetics / David King -- If pigs could fly, they would: the problems with xenotransplantation / Alix Fano -- Reproductive technology: welcome to the brave new world / Zoë C. Meleo-Erwin -- Is violence in your genes? the Violence Initiative Project: coming soon to an inner city near you / Mitchel Cohen -- Gene giants: understanding the "life industry" / Hope Sand -- Patients, ethics and spin / Beth Burrows -- Biotechnology and indigenous peoples / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz -- Shhams, shamans and the commercialization of biodiversity / Michael K. Dorsey -- Biporiacy: the theft of knowledge and resources / Vandana Shiva -- Exlusive rights, enclosure and patenting of life / Kimberly A. Wilson -- Paving the way for biotechnology: Federal regulations and industry PR / Jennifer Ferrara -- Biotechnology and the new world order / Mitchel Cohen -- Resisting the engineering of life / Brian Tokar -- Princes, aliens, superheroes and snowballs: the playful world of the UK genetic resistence / Jim Thomas -- Seed Satyagraha: a movement for farmer's rights and freedoms in a world of intellectual property rights, globalized agriculture and biotechnology / Vandana Shiva -- Europe: hostile lands from GMOs / Thomas G. Schweiger -- No patents on life: the incredible ten-year campaign aginst the European patent directive / Steve Emmott -- No to bovine growth hormone: ten years of resistence in Canada / Lucy Sharratt -- Cooperatives: a source of community strength / Robin Seydel -- McDonald's, MTV and Monsanto: resisting biotechnolgy in the age of informational capital / Chaia Heller.

Offering an examination of the hidden hazards of the new genetic technologies and the emergence of worldwide resistance, this text analyses the issues, their social and ethical implications and the stories that lie behind the headlines.

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