Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-Information

Bronwyn Parry

Published by Columbia University Press 2004

Trading the Genome

Investigating the Commodification of Bio-Information

Bronwyn Parry

https://doi.org/10.7312/parr12174

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor 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.

Reviews

Gerard Porter:
Parry takes a highly complex field and makes it easily accessible through her clear and incisive style.

Morgan M. Robertson:
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.

Felix Driver:
One of Parry's major contributions is to open this rather closed world to scrutiny.

Brendan Tobin:
This book is a welcome addition to the literature and will be a valuable resource...Well worth the read.

Trading the Genome is strongly recommended as an eye-opener to the practices of the modern pharmaceutical industry.

Adrian Barnett:
Parry has a clear, incisive style...making Trading the Genome a forceful, considered and thought-provoking analysis of one of the most important issues of our time.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
List of Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
1. INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. THE COLLECTION OF NATURE AND THE NATURE OF COLLECTING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
3. SPEEDUP ACCELERATING THE SOCIAL AND SPATIAL DYNAMICS OF COLLECTING Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
4. NEW COLLECTORS, NEW COLLECTIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
5. THE FATE OF THE COLLECTIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
6. TAMING THE SLIPPERY BEAST REGULATING TRADE IN BIO-INFORMATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
7. BACK TO THE FUTURE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
APPENDIX: METHODOLOGY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 23
- Other: 23 illus.

eBook

Published: September 29, 2004
ISBN: 9780231509299