Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience

Tracing the rise and cultural politics of biotechnology from a critical perspective, Biotech Juggernaut examines the intensifying effort of bioentrepreneurs to apply genetic engineering technologies to the human species. It explains how converging vectors of economic, politic, social, and cultural elements are driving biotechnology's swift advance.

Author: Tina Stevens,Stuart Newman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01/28/2019
Pages: 206
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781138043190

About the Author

Tina Stevens, Ph.D., is Lecturer Emerita at San Francisco State University, Department of History. She is a co-founder of Alliance for Humane Biotechnology, and the author of Bioethics in America: Origins and Cultural Politics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).

Stuart Newman, Ph.D., is Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at New York Medical College where he studies developmental and evolutionary biology. He was a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics and is co-author of Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo (Cambridge, 2005). He is editor of the journal Biological Theory (Springer).