Overview

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.

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Author:   Vandana Shiva ,  Ingunn Moser
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.332kg
ISBN:  

9781856493369

ISBN 10:   1856493369
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   04 September 1995
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table 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

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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.

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