A Machine to Make a Future
Biotech Chronicles
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2013
224 pages
978-1-4008-4966-6 (ISBN)
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Edition
With a New afterword by the authors
Language
English
Place of publication
Princeton
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Reflowable
Illustrations
8 halftones.
8 halftones.
File size
0,68 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4008-4966-6 (9781400849666)
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Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include French DNA, Making PCR, and Anthropos Today (Princeton). Talia Dan-Cohen received a B.A. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Content
Overture: A MACHINE TO MAKE A FUTURE 1
Chapter One: ENDING AND BEGINNING 13
Chapter Two: THE STATE OF THINGS AT CELERA DIAGNOSTICS, EXPLAINED TO INVESTORS AND TO ANTHROPOLOGISTS 38
Chapter Three: THE MACHINERY AND ITS STEWARDS 62
Chapter Four: ETHICAL AND SOCIAL CONSULTANCY 97
Chapter Five: CONFIDENCE AND TRUST 111
Chapter Six: MODELS ORIENT, TECHNOLOGIES PERFORM, SAMPLES SPEAK (OR VICE VERSA) 144
Chapter Seven: SUMMER 2003 169
Illustrations 187
Appendix: A CORPORATE HISTORY 189
Notes 191
Glossary 195
Chapter One: ENDING AND BEGINNING 13
Chapter Two: THE STATE OF THINGS AT CELERA DIAGNOSTICS, EXPLAINED TO INVESTORS AND TO ANTHROPOLOGISTS 38
Chapter Three: THE MACHINERY AND ITS STEWARDS 62
Chapter Four: ETHICAL AND SOCIAL CONSULTANCY 97
Chapter Five: CONFIDENCE AND TRUST 111
Chapter Six: MODELS ORIENT, TECHNOLOGIES PERFORM, SAMPLES SPEAK (OR VICE VERSA) 144
Chapter Seven: SUMMER 2003 169
Illustrations 187
Appendix: A CORPORATE HISTORY 189
Notes 191
Glossary 195
