Biopolitics : A Feminist and Ecological Reader on Biotechnology (Paperback)

Foreword Preface List of Contributors 1. Introduction: Mobilizing Critical Communities and Discourses on Modern Biotechnology - Ingunn Moser Part I: Biotechnology as Culture: (Re)constructions of Biology and Nature 2. Human Nature - Ruth Hubbard 3. Genes as Causes - Ruth Hubbard 4. Fractured Images of Science, Language and Power: A Post-Modern Optic, or Just Bad Eyesight? - Evelyn Fox Keller 5. Otherworldly Conversations, Terrain Topics, Local Terms - Donna Haraway Part II: Biohazards: Risk in Context 6. The Limits of Experimental Knowledge: A Feminist Perspective on the Ecological Risks of Genetic Engineering - Regine Kollek 7. Error-Friendliness and the Evolutionary Impact of Deliberate Release of GMOs - Christine von Weizsacker 8. The Greening of Biotechnology: GMOs as Environment-Friendly Products - Les Levidow and Joyce Tait Part III: Bioethics, Knowledge, and Ethics as Politics 9. Biosemiotics and Ethics - Jesper Hoffmeyer 10. A 'Genethics' that Makes Sense - Rosalyn Diprose 11. Whose Ethics for Agricultural Biotechnology? - Les Levidow Part IV: Biopolitics: The Political Ecology of Biotechnology 12. Biotechnological Development and the Conservation of Biodiversity - Vandana Shiva 13. Biotechnology, Patents and the Third World - Cary Fowler 14. Biotechnology and the Future of Agriculture - Nicanor Perlas 16. Epilogue: Beyond Redcutionism - Vandana Shiva Glossary A Select Guide to Further Reading Index