French DNA - Trouble in Purgatory

In 1993, an American biotechnology company and a French genetics lab developed a collaborative research plan to search for diabetes genes. But just as the project was to begin, the French government called it to a halt, barring the laboratory from sharing something never previously thought of as a commodity unto itself: French DNA.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Paul Rabinow is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written and edited numerous books, including Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology and French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Zusammenfassung

"Can a country claim to have its own genetic material?" Rabinow demonstrates that the answer to this question is far from simple. The work is cross-disciplinary, marrying news events, science and philosophical analysis to see how past events influenced current thinking.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Paul Rabinow
• Mitarbeit: University Of Chicago Press (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: University Of Chicago Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.11.2002
• EAN: 9780226701516
• ISBN: 978-0-226-70151-6
• Seiten: 208
• Abmessung: 143 mm x 223 mm x 17 mm
• Gewicht: 292 g
• Thema: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein