Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773521445 ISBN 13: 9780773521445

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Tokar, Brian

About this title

About the Author

Brian Tokar has been an activist since the 1970s, and is currently a faculty member at Goddard College and the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont.

Review

In this wide-ranging collection, scientists and activists discuss the pressing issues growing out of the wanton commercialization of the life sciences. With clear and up-to-date examples, the authors illustrate the dangers inherent in the unfettered manipulation of plant, animal and human biology for health and societal well-being. Ruth Hubbard, Professor Emerita of Biology at Harvard University, Board Member of the Council for Responsible Genetics, and author of Exploding the Gene Myth.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0773521445
• ISBN 13: 9780773521445
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Tokar Brian