Engineering Trouble: Biotechnology and Its Discontents

ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 10
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 12
Introduction: Biotechnology in the New Millennium......Page 14
1 Wonderful Potencies? Deep Structure and the Problem of Monopoly in Agricultural Biotechnology......Page 37
2 Building a Better Tree: Genetic Engineering and Fiber Farming in Oregon and Washington......Page 76
3 The Migration of Salmon from Nature to Biotechnology......Page 97
4 Making Biotech History: Social Resistance to Agricultural Biotechnology and the Future of the Biotechnology Industry......Page 124
5 Eating Risk: The Politics of Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods......Page 143
6 The Global Politics of GEOs: The Achilles’ Heel of the Globalization Regime?......Page 165
7 Biotech Battles: Plants, Power, and Intellectual Property in the New Global Governance Regimes......Page 187
8 From Molecules to Medicines: The Use of Genetic Resources in Pharmaceutical Research......Page 208
CONCLUSION: Recreating Democracy......Page 252
GLOSSARY......Page 268
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 272
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 276
INDEX......Page 310