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! Read ! Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-Information by Bronwyn Parry ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-Information In a groundbreaking work that draws on anthropology, history, philosophy, business and law, Parry links firsthand knowledge of the operation of the bioprospecting industry to a sophisticated analysis of broader economic, regulatory, and technological transformations to reveal the complex economic and political dynamics that underpin the new global trade in bio-information.]
| Title | : | Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-Information |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.34 (740 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231121741 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
"Fascinating Book on a Totally New Concept" according to John Matlock. Every once in a while a book come at you totally out of the blue. This is one.Suppose you have a plant, corn let's say. Someone then delivers to you another variety of corn that has some valuable characteristic: resistance to disease, ability to grow with less water or in a salty soil. But the new corn doesn't produce as high a yield as the corn you have. You take this new variety, isolate the gene that provides this capability and merge it with your older variety to produce a new strain that combines the good features of both.The Biodiversity Convention oblig
(Gerard Porter Social & Legal Studies) . (Brendan Tobin Nature)One of Parry's major contributions is to open this rather closed world to scrutiny. (Morgan M. (Felix Driver Jouranl of Historical Geography)Maintaining a dogged grip on some very important and heretofore-unasked empirical questions, Parry leads us into ground on which it is easy to feel that no critical eye has yet gazed. Parry has a clear, incisive stylemaking Trading the Genome a forceful, considered and thought-provoking analysis of one of the most important issues of our time. (Naturalist)This book is a w
In a groundbreaking work that draws on anthropology, history, philosophy, business and law, Parry links firsthand knowledge of the operation of the bioprospecting industry to a sophisticated analysis of broader economic, regulatory, and technological transformations to reveal the complex economic and political dynamics that underpin the new global trade in bio-information.
Bronwyn Parry is an economic and cultural geographer who holds a senior research fellowship at King's College, University of Cambridge. Her current research focuses on the creation and use of human tissue collections in the UK.
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