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Biotechnology is the single most powerful bundle of new technologies currently under development. It is also the most intrusive and determinative technology relating to nature generally and the human body specifically. This Reader brings together some of the most important work from feminists and environmentalists critical of the headlong rush into what is likely to prove a technological minefield. As such it will be essential reading for students, scholars and activists in social studies of science, women''s studies, development and environmental studies.>
List of contents
Foreword
Preface
List of Contributors
1. Introduction: Mobilizing Critical Communities and Discourses on Modern Biotechnology - Ingunn Moser
Part I: Biotechnology as Culture: (Re)constructions of Biology and Nature
2. Human Nature - Ruth Hubbard
3. Genes as Causes - Ruth Hubbard
4. Fractured Images of Science, Language and Power: A Post-Modern Optic, or Just Bad Eyesight? - Evelyn Fox Keller
5. Otherworldly Conversations, Terrain Topics, Local Terms - Donna Haraway
Part II: Biohazards: Risk in Context
6. The Limits of Experimental Knowledge: A Feminist Perspective on the Ecological Risks of Genetic Engineering - Regine Kollek
7. Error-Friendliness and the Evolutionary Impact of Deliberate Release of GMOs - Christine von Weizsacker
8. The Greening of Biotechnology: GMOs as Environment-Friendly Products - Les Levidow and Joyce Tait
Part III: Bioethics, Knowledge, and Ethics as Politics
9. Biosemiotics and Ethics - Jesper Hoffmeyer
10. A 'Genethics' that Makes Sense - Rosalyn Diprose
11. Whose Ethics for Agricultural Biotechnology? - Les Levidow
Part IV: Biopolitics: The Political Ecology of Biotechnology
12. Biotechnological Development and the Conservation of Biodiversity - Vandana Shiva
13. Biotechnology, Patents and the Third World - Cary Fowler
14. Biotechnology and the Future of Agriculture - Nicanor Perlas
16. Epilogue: Beyond Redcutionism - Vandana Shiva
Glossary
A Select Guide to Further Reading
Index
About the author
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and campaigner. She won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) in 1993, and the Earth Day Award. In India she is Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. Her numerous influential books include
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development (Zed),
The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed) and
Monocultures of the Mind (Zed).
Ingunn Moser teaches at the Centre for Technology and Culture, University of Oslo.
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and campaigner. She won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) in 1993, and the Earth Day Award. In India she is Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. Her numerous influential books include
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development (Zed),
The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed) and
Monocultures of the Mind (Zed).
Ingunn Moser teaches at the Centre for Technology and Culture, University of Oslo.
