Biotech

Author: Eric J. Vettel
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 081222051X

Biotech: The Countercultural Origins of an Industry (Politics and Culture in Modern America)

The seemingly unlimited reach of powerful biotechnologies and the attendant growth of the multibillion-dollar industry have raised difficult questions about the scientific discoveries, political assumptions, and cultural patterns that gave rise to for-profit biological research. Download Biotech: The Countercultural Origins of an Industry (Politics and Culture in Modern America) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Given such extraordinary stakes, a history of the commercial biotechnology industry must inquire far beyond the predictable attention to scientists, discovery, and corporate sales. It must pursue how something so complex as the biotechnology industry was born, poised to become both a vanguard for contemporary world capitalism and a focal point for polemic ethical debate.

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