A Machine to Make a Future : : Biotech Chronicles / / Paul Rabinow, Talia Dan-Cohen.
A Machine to Make a Future represents a remarkably original look at the present and possible future of biotechnology research in the wake of the mapping of the human genome. The central tenet of Celera Diagnostics--the California biotech company whose formative work during 2003 is the focus of the b...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | With a New afterword by the authors |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 8 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Overture. A MACHINE TO MAKE A FUTURE
- Chapter One. ENDING AND BEGINNING
- Chapter Two. THE STATE OF THINGS AT CELERA DIAGNOSTICS, EXPLAINED TO INVESTORS AND TO ANTHROPOLOGISTS
- Chapter Three. THE MACHINERY AND ITS STEWARDS
- Chapter Four. ETHICAL AND SOCIAL CONSULTANCY
- Chapter Five. CONFIDENCE AND TRUST
- Chapter Six. MODELS ORIENT, TECHNOLOGIES PERFORM, SAMPLES SPEAK (OR VICE VERSA)
- Chapter Seven. SUMMER 2003
- Afterword
- Illustrations
- Appendix. A CORPORATE HISTORY
- Notes
- Glossary