Plunders of Biotechnology

A resource for biotechnology activists, a handbook for understanding its context, and inspiration for a "coherent, cohesuive and radical anti-biotechnology movement."

Z07901

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Defines biotechnology and examines its cultural, political, corporate, and global contexts, applications, culture, and environmental dangers and provides models of resistance.

I. What is Biotechnology? -- II. Context: Politics -- (Political power -- Corporate power -- Globalization and international trade agreements -- Intellectual property) -- III. Science: a neutral apolitcal world? -- IV. Applications: how biotech is really used -- (Agriculture -- Forestry --Cloning -- Pharmaceuticals -- Human genetics) -- V. Envronmental dangers of bioetechnology -- VI. Biopiracy -- VII. Culture -- (Small farm serfdom -- Impacts on the culture of the two- thirds world) -- VIII. Beyond Biotechnology: the new horizons of nanotechnology -- IX. Models and visions of resistance.

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