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- First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
- Series: Science and Technology in Society
summary
First the Seed spotlights the history of plant breeding and shows how efforts to control the seed have shaped the emergence of the agricultural biotechnology industry. This second edition of a classic work in the political economy of science includes an extensive, new chapter updating the analysis to include the most recent developments in the struggle over the direction of crop genetic engineering.
1988 Cloth, 1990 Paperback, Cambridge University Press
Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Agricultural History Society
Winner of the Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association
1988 Cloth, 1990 Paperback, Cambridge University Press
Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Agricultural History Society
Winner of the Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association
Table of Contents
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- List of tables
- pp. x-xi
- List of figures
- p. xii
- Preface to the second edition
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Preface to the first edition
- pp. xv-xviii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xix-xx
- Lists of abbreviations
- pp. xxi-xxii
- 1. Introduction
- pp. 1-18
- 9. Directions for deployment
- pp. 242-277
- 10. Conclusion
- pp. 278-290
- References
- pp. 379-420
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299192433
Related ISBN(s)
9780299192440
MARC Record
OCLC
290523610
Pages
448
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2005
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