Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets (Experimental Futures)

Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets (Experimental Futures)
by Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Publication Date: March 28, 2012

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Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Exploring the ground where social and cultural anthropology intersect with science and technology studies, prominent scholars investigate the relationship of biotechnology to ethics, governance, and markets, as well as the new legal, social, cultural, and institutional mechanisms emerging to regulate biotechnology. The contributors examine genomics, pharmaceutical marketing, intellectual property, environmental science, clinical trials, patient advocacy, and other such matters as they are playing out in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Lively Capital is not only about the commercialization of the life sciences, but their institutional histories, epistemic formations, and systems of valuation. It is also about the lively affects—the emotions and desires—involved when technologies and research impinge on experiences of embodiment, kinship, identity, disability, citizenship, accumulation, and dispossession. At stake in the commodification of the life sciences are opportunities to intervene in and adjudicate matters of health, life, and death.

Contributors. Timothy Choy, Joseph Dumit, Michael M. J. Fischer, Kim Fortun, Mike Fortun, Donna Haraway, Wen-Hua Kuo, Andrew Lakoff, Kristin Peterson, Chloe Silverman, Elta Smith, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Travis J. Tanner

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #529770 in Books
• Published on: 2012-03-28
• Original language: English
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• 536 pages

The Gmo Trilogy And Seeds of Deception Set

The Gmo Trilogy And Seeds of Deception Set
by Jeffrey M. Smith
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Now Jeffrey M. Smith’s best-selling book is paired with a new DVD and CD set that shows how genetically modified organisms (GMOs) put our health and environment at risk. This set will impact consumer perceptions and buying habits. DVD 1: Unnatural Selection This stunning, award-winning documentary by Bertram Verhaag and Gabriele Kröber reveals harsh consequences of genetic engineering on three continents. Vandana Shiva, Andrew Kimbrell, Percy Schmeiser and others, describe uncontrollable, self-replicating GM contamination, failed crops, farmer suicides, and new GM animals that threaten natural populations. "Best Film," (CineEco, Portugal), "Best Long Production," (IEFF, Brazil), and "Best Journalistic Achievement," (IEFF, Germany). "Meticulously researched, excellently photographed" –Ökomedia DVD 2: Hidden Dangers in Kids’ Meals: Genetically Engineered Foods Shocking research results, inadequate regulations and warnings from eminent scientists explain why GM foods are dangerous and should be removed from kids’ meals. The dramatic story of how student behavior in a Wisconsin school was transformed with a healthy diet provides added motivation to make a change. It features Jeffrey Smith and more than a dozen scientists and experts. "Hidden Dangers pierces the myth that our government is protecting our food supply." –John Robbins, Diet for a New America "It will change the way you look at food forever." –Howard Lyman, Mad Cowboy Audio CD: You’re Eating WHAT? Jeffrey Smith’s riveting one-hour talk. "The most powerful presentation I have ever heard on the issue of genetically engineered foods. –Craig Winters, The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods Seeds of Deception This is the top-rated, best selling book in the world on GM foods. Smith exposes the serious health dangers of genetically modified foods and the corporate cover-up. A fast-paced thriller of industry manipulation and political collusion, combined with lucid descriptions of genetic engineering and guidance on how to protect yourself and your family.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #65439 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-15
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 289 pages