Private science : biotechnology and the rise of the molecular sciences

Introduction 1. Molecular Biology and the Long-Term History of Biotechnology 2. Problematizing Basic Research in Molecular Biology 3. Biotechnology and Blood: Edwin Cohn's Plasma Fractionation Project, 1940-1953 4. Diamond v. Chakrabarty and Beyond: The Political Economy of Patenting Life 5. Molecular Politics in a Global Economy 6. The Political Economy of British Biotechnology 7. Biotechnology and the Creation of a New Economic Space 8. The Cultural and Symbolic Dimensions of Agricultural Biotechnology 9. Monoclonal Antibodies: From Local to Extended Networks 10. The Human Genome Project and the Acceleration of Biotechnology 11. Data Access Policy in Genome Research 12. Biotechnology's Private Parts (and Some Public Ones) Index Contributors Acknowledgments