Global Genome Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture

Name: Global Genome Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture
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ISBN: 9780262201551

ISBN-10: 0262201550

ISBN-13: 9780262201551

Edition: 2006

Authors: Eugene Thacker

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In the age of global biotechnology, DNA can exist as biological material in a test tube, as a sequence in a computer database, and as economically valuable information in a patent. In "The Global Genome, Eugene Thacker asks us to consider the relationship of these three entities and argues that -- by their existence and their interrelationships -- they are fundamentally redefining the notion of biological "life itself."Biological science and the biotech industry are increasingly organized at a global level, in large part because of the use of the Internet in exchanging biological data. International genome sequencing efforts, genomic databases, the development of World Intellectual Property…

Book details

List price: $9.75
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 5/20/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English



Series Foreword


Foreword



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Encoding / Production



The Global Genome



Bioinformatic Bodies and the Problem of "Life Itself"



A Political Economy of the Genomic Body



Recoding / Distribution



Biocolonialism, Genomics, and the Databasing of the Population



The Incorporate Bodies of Recombinant Capital



Bioinfowar: Biologically Enhancing National Security



Decoding / Consumption



The Thickness of Tissue Engineering



Regenerative Medicine: We Can Grow it for You Wholesale



Conclusion: Tactical Media and Bioart



Biotechnology Fields and Areas of Application



Techniques and Technologies in Biotechnology Research



A Brief Chronology of Bioinformatics



Biotechnology and Popular Culture; Or, Mutants, Replicants, and Zombies


Notes


Index