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Title: French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory by Paul Rabinow ISBN: 0-226-70150-6 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good book
Comment: I found the idea of an anthropologist having the opportunity to observe operations in a French biotech institution as things unfolded very enticing. At times I wished that I had a better background in philosophy since Rabinow makes frequent references to certain philosophers in a few chapters which I found a bit challenging to read. Nevertheless, the event that Rabinow covers is an interesting one, and he gives a very good picture of how the French view bioscience, the human body, and the commercialization of biotech products. In particular I enjoyed his descriptions and insights on the interactions of the people involved in the event and how they fit in the overall context of French society.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must-read for everyone who questions what biotech means
Comment: I really loved Rabinow's MAKING PCR, about the process of developing this major biotech tool (and probably a more accurate look at Kary Mullis than he gives in his own autobiography). FRENCH DNA is a terrific book in a different way. Rabinow tells an exciting and sobering story, virtually a who-done-it, and along the way he raises important questions about what genetic material really is, who owns it, what it means to have international research collaborations, and what biotechnology means to individuals and nations. A fascinating book.
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Title: Making Pcr: A Story of Biotechnology by Paul Rabinow ISBN: 0226701476 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.06 |
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Title: Genetic Nature/Culture: Anthropology and Science Beyond the Two-Culture Divide by Alan H. Goodman, Deborah Heath, M. Susan Lindee ISBN: 0520237935 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman ISBN: 0393057755 Publisher: W. W. Nortan & Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer ISBN: 0520235509 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Fred Block ISBN: 080705643X Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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