Biotechnology
03 Oct 1994 12:00Popular and semi-popular views. And information. And environmentalism. And the rainforests. And the university-industrial complex. Military involvement and uses.
Particular biotechologies: Biological computers, directed molecular evolution, recombinant DNA, prostheses and other sorts of biomedical engineering.
- See:
- Massimiano Bucchi and Federico Neresini, "Why Are People Hostile to Biotechnologies?", Science 304 (2004): 1749 [Italian survey data]
- Peter Medawar, Fear and DNA
- Robert Teitelman, Gene Dreams: Wall Street, Academia, and the Rise of Biotechnology
- To read:
- Bauer (ed.), Resistance to New Technology: Nuclear Power, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Robert Bud, The Uses of Life: A History of Biotechnology [Blurb]
- John Elkington, Double Dividends: US Biotechnology and Third World Development
- Drew Endy, "Foundations for engineering biology", Nature 438 (2005): 449--453
- Janet Hope, Biobazaar: The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology [blurb]
- Walter V. Reid, Sarah A. Laird, Carrie A. Meyer, Rodrigo Gamez, Ana Sittenfeld and Daniel H. Janzen, Biodiversity Prospecting: Using Genetic Resources for Sustainable Development
- Rollin, The Frankenstein Syndrome: Ethical and Social Issues in the Genetic Engineering of Animals [Rollin is a professor of philosophy, physiology and biophysics, so this is likely to be unusually well-informed.]
- Namatié Traoré, "Networks and Rapid Technological Change: Novel Evidence from the Canadian Biotech Industry", Industry and Innovation 13 (2006): 41--68
