Engineering Trouble

Biotechnology and Its Discontents

By: Rachel A. Schurman (Editor), Dennis Takahashi Kelso (Editor)

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Paperback | 6 October 2003 | Edition Number 1

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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 the world's major newspapers. As Europeans began rejecting genetically engineered foods in the marketplace, the StarLink corn incident exploded in the United States and farmers set fire to genetically modified crops in India. Citizens and consumers have become increasingly aware of and troubled by the issues surrounding these new technologies. Considering cases from agriculture, food, forestry, and pharmaceuticals, this book examines some of the most pressing questions raised by genetic engineering. What determines whether GEOs enter the food supply, and how are such decisions being made? How is the biotechnology industry using its power to reshape food, fiber, and pharmaceutical production, and how are citizen-activists challenging these initiatives? And what are the social and political consequences of global differences over GEOs?

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Biotechnology in the New Millennium: Technological Change, Institutional Change, and Political Struggle	p. 1
Wonderful Potencies? Deep Structure and the Problem of Monopoly in Agricultural Biotechnology	p. 24
Building a Better Tree: Genetic Engineering and Fiber Farming in Oregon and Washington	p. 63
The Migration of Salmon from Nature to Biotechnology	p. 84
Making Biotech History: Social Resistance to Agricultural Biotechnology and the Future of the Biotechnology Industry	p. 111
Eating Risk: The Politics of Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods	p. 130
The Global Politics of GEOs: The Achilles' Heel of the Globalization Regime?	p. 152
Biotech Battles: Plants, Power, and Intellectual Property in the New Global Governance Regimes	p. 174
From Molecules to Medicines: The Use of Genetic Resources in Pharmaceutical Research	p. 195
The Brave New Worlds of Agricultural Technoscience: Changing Perspectives, Recurrent Themes, and New Research Directions in Agro-Food Studies	p. 218
Conclusion: Recreating Democracy	p. 239
Glossary	p. 255
Contributors	p. 259
Bibliography	p. 263
Index	p. 297
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