| French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory Contributor(s): Rabinow, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226701514 ISBN-13: 9780226701516 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2002 Annotation: In 1993, an American biotechnology company and a French genetics lab developed a collaborative research plan to search for diabetes genes. But just as the project was to begin, the French government called it to a halt, barring the laboratory from sharing something never previously thought of as a commodity unto itself: French DNA. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science |
| Dewey: 572.807 |
| LCCN: 99012162 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.56" W x 8.57" (0.63 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1993, an American biotechnology company and a French genetics lab developed a collaborative research plan to search for diabetes genes. But just as the project was to begin, the French government called it to a halt, barring the laboratory from sharing something never previously thought of as a commodity unto itself: French DNA. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rabinow, Paul: - Paul Rabinow is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. |