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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.

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

Biopolitics: A Feminist and Ecological Reader on Biotechnology

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: 04/09/1995
      ISBN13: 9781856493369, 978-1856493369
      ISBN10: 1856493369
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      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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