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Biotechnology Unzipped: Promises and Realities, Revised Second Edition
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by Eric S. Grace and A Joseph Henry Press book
Sales Rank: 378142
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List Price: $19.95
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Paperback: 241 pages
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press; 2 edition July 26, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0309096219
ISBN-13: 978-0309096218
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
The New York Times Book Review, Jacqueline Boone
Grace makes his complex subject easy to digest by dividing each chapter into palatable sections with clever subheads and often humorous sidebars, including a recipe for making DNA that calls for ingredients like "a handful of bacteria (about a thousand million)." He includes a dispassionate discussion of ethical repercussions and public concerns. Since "the focus of biotechnology companies is profit, not philanthropy," Biotechnology Unzipped serves to caution us that without the requisite judiciousness, even the most wondrous and potentially life-saving feats of science "cannot, in the end, save us from who we are".
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Product Description
(Joseph Henry Press) Revised edition aims to help readers understand and take part in biotechnology debates. Topics include how biotechnology came about, tools in the genetic engineering workshop, biotechnology and the body, biotechnology on the farm, biotechnology and the environment, ethical issues, and more. For clinicians. Previous edition: c1997. Softcover.
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